James M. McPherson: By the Book by

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The author, most recently, of “Embattled Rebel: Jefferson Davis as Commander in Chief” says that coming of age in Minnesota in the ’50s, he saw the South as “a mysterious, almost foreign land.”

Published: October 5, 2014 at 4:00AM

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