Assistant Editor at the George Washington Papers and recent UVA PhD graduate Jeffrey Zvengrowski has just published his first book now available this month, Jefferson Davis, Napoleonic France, and the Nature of Confederate Ideology, 1815-1870 (LSU Press, 2020).
From the LSU Press website:
"In this highly original study of Confederate ideology and politics, Jeffrey Zvengrowski suggests that Confederate president Jefferson Davis and his supporters saw Bonapartist France as a model for the Confederate States of America.... Like Napoleon I and Napoleon III, pro-Davis Confederates desired to build an industrial nation-state capable of waging Napoleonic-style warfare with large conscripted armies.... Zvengrowski’s captivating new interpretation of Confederate ideology situates the Civil War in a global context of imperial competition.... Furthermore, it updates the biographies of familiar characters: Calhoun, who befriended Bonapartist officers; Davis, who was as much a Francophile as his namesake; Jefferson, who may have been a Napoleon I sympathizer; and Robert E. Lee, who as West Point’s superintendent mentored a grand-nephew of Napoleon I."
For more information, please visit the book's official webpage linked below.