Volume 35, Number 6 · April 14, 1988
A Southern Romantic
By C. Vann Woodward
Judah P. Benjamin: The Jewish Confederate
by Eli N. Evans
The Free Press, 469 pp., $24.95
A figure of prime importance in Civil War history, one who stood at the very center of the Confederate war effort, Judah P. Benjamin has remained, for all the five books previously written about him, a shadowy and enigmatic character draped in impenetrable mystery. There are many reasons for this, but part of the responsibility was his own. Not long before his death in 1884 he wrote a would-be biographer,
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