I was looking at a biography online called "Breckinridge: Statesman, Soldier, Symbol" by William C. Davis. Has anyone here read it, and what are your thoughts on it?
A follow-up question to that would be - give me your best reasons why Breckinridge is worthy of a biography and why someone might want to consider reading one about him. Admittedly, I don't know a lot about him, and thought I might want to learn more, but I am also trying to be practical, knowing that I can't buy and read every single book on the Civil War and Reconstruction, and that things have to come down to a prioritized list.
[By the way, don't assume, based on my first 2 posts to this site, that I am: 1) exclusively or primarily interested in the Confederacy; or 2) that I only read books by William C. Davis ]
A follow-up question to that would be - give me your best reasons why Breckinridge is worthy of a biography and why someone might want to consider reading one about him. Admittedly, I don't know a lot about him, and thought I might want to learn more, but I am also trying to be practical, knowing that I can't buy and read every single book on the Civil War and Reconstruction, and that things have to come down to a prioritized list.
[By the way, don't assume, based on my first 2 posts to this site, that I am: 1) exclusively or primarily interested in the Confederacy; or 2) that I only read books by William C. Davis ]