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Robert Penn Warren’s Reflections on Jefferson Davis’s Citizenship

Posted on February 13, 2017 by Chris Mackowski

As I mentioned in a post a couple weeks ago, I had the opportunity recently to pick up Robert Penn Warren’s short 1980 book Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back. It’s beautifully written, and Warren’s ambivalence about his native South … Continue reading →

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Robert Penn Warren, Jefferson Davis, and the Construction of a Monument

Posted on February 3, 2017 by Chris Mackowski

In his 1980 essay “Jefferson Davis Gets His Citizenship Back,” first printed in The New Yorker and later published as a short book, Robert Penn Warren reflected on the construction of a monument to former Confederate President Jefferson Davis. That … Continue reading →

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