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01.16 Concerning Biographies of Southern Leaders

01.16.01 :  Selected Political Leader (Washington) —  George Washington, a biography by Douglas Southall Freeman, in 7 volumes, published in 1948-1957 and George Washington, The Image and the Man, a biography by W. E. Woodward, published in 1926.  


01.16.02 :  Selected Political Leader (Davis) —  Jefferson Davis, by Hudson Strode, in 3 Volumes (V1, American Patriot, 1808-1861; V2, Confederate President, 1861-1864; V3 Tragic Hero, 1864-1889). 


01.16.03 :  Selected Pioneering Leader (?) —  Andrew Jackson, The Life of, a biography by Marquis James, made up of Vol. 1, The Border Captain (1933) and Vol. 2, Portrait of a President (1937). 


01.16.04 :  Selected Military Leader —  Lee, Robert E., a biography in 4 volumes by Douglas Southall Freeman, titled: R. E. Lee: A Biography, published in 1934-35. [Click on number to link to review]


01.16.05 :  Selected Agricultural Leader  — Edmund Ruffin, Southerner, A Study in Secession, by Avery O. Craven, published in 1932. [Click on number to link to review]


01.16.06 :  Selected Transportation Leader (?) —


01.16.07 :  Selected Philosophical Leader —  John C. Calhoun: American Portrait, by Margaret L. Coit, published in 1950.


01.16.08 :  Selected Commercial/Economic Leader — Robert Mills, biographies by John Bryan, titled Robert Mills: America’s First Architect, published in 2001 and Rhodri W. Liscombe, titled Altogether American: Robert Mills, Architect and Engineer, 1781-1855, published in 1994. [Click on number to see our review]


01.16.09 :  Selected Religious Leader — Wade, John Donald, Augustus Baldwin Longstreet: A Study of the Development of Culture in the South, published in 1925 [Click on number to link to our review]


01.16.10 :  Selected Literary Leader (?) — Poe, Edgar Allan, a biography by Hervey Allen, titled, Israfel: The Life and Times of Edgar Allen Poe, published in 1926 as 2 volumes, and Poe, Edgar Allan, a biography by Arthur Hobson Quinn titled: Edgar Allan Poe: A Critical Biography, published in 1941.


01.16.11 :  Selected Leader in Southern Music (?) —


01.16.12 :  Selected Leader Concerning Family Life (?) —


01.16.13 :  Selected Native American Leader (?) —


01.16.14 :  Selected African American Leader Prior to 1940 (?) —  Washington, Booker T., Up from Slavery, an autobiography published in 1901.


01.16.15 :  Selected Female Leader — First Lady of the South: The Life of Mrs. Jefferson Davis by Ishbel Ross, published in 1958. [Click on number to link to our review]


01.16.16 :  Selected Northern States Sectional Leader (Lincoln) —   Thaddeus Stevens (Old Thad Stevens . . .), a biography by Richard Nelson Current, published in 1942.