CONFEDERATE PRESIDENT JEFFERSON DAVIS IN 1861 | U.S. PRESIDENT ABRAHAM LINCOLN IN 1860
HOUSE OF DAVIS retells the history of Washington, D.C. using facts from the life of Jefferson Davis. Together those truths reveal how a “slave power conspiracy” nearly destroyed the United States. The book begins decades before the poisoning of his ex-father-in-law, 12th President Zachary Taylor, on the Fourth of July in 1850. It ends decades after the assassination of his political rival, 16th President Abraham Lincoln, on Good Friday in 1865. Assembling facts culled from archives nationwide, HOUSE OF DAVIS splinters the wooden story about Jeff Davis left behind by Jim Crow. It shows instead how a Washington, D.C. politician in pursuit of absolute power turned the nation against itself.
(Top)–Front page of New York Times announcing indictment of Jefferson Davis and his spies for Lincoln’s murder