Poet of the Lost Cause

by Donald Robert Beagle, Bryan Albin Giemza

2008 · Univ. of Tennessee Press

The result of meticulous scholarship and decades of careful collecting to create a body of reliable information, this definitive, full-length biography of the enigmatic Confederate poet presents a close examination of the man behind the myth and separates Lost Cause legend from fact."--Jacket.

White House Ghosts

by Robert Schlesinger

2008 · Simon and Schuster

Schlesinger offers an original and illuminating way to understand the modern presidents by examining how, and how closely, they worked with the men and women who wrote their memorable speeches and helped them find the words to define themselves.