Lexington, KY: University Of Kentucky Press, (1980) dj. Hardcover first edition - A long autobiographical essay on Southern politics, American history and Jefferson Davis, which grew out of a visit in 1979 to Warren's native Todd Country, Kentucky, to attend ceremonies in honor of another native son, Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, whose United States citizenship had been restored, 90 years after his death, by an act of Congress. "A meditation by one of our most respected men of letters on the ironies of American history and the paradoxes of the modern South." 114 pp. ISBN: 0-813114454.