Part of the country during the war. Can you comment a little bit more on davis relationship with bragg, why he would have kept bragg in command as long as he did, and also, do you have an opinion about who davis might have turned to to command the army of tennessee . Well, first on the bragg question, when i began the research for this book, i shared the negative consensus about bragg as a commander. But the more i got into the material, the more i got into the research, the more i began to doubt that stereotype. Bragg was not a likeable guy. No question about that. He was a stern discipline anywheran, unpopular with his men and part of the problem in his relationships with his generals was the nature of this personality. S was quarrelsome. He was a sub busch train over troops. Davis was impressed when bragg took raw troops, organized them into what turned out to be the crack division that fought at shilo, when bragg wanted to continue the attack at shilo, when beauregard decided to bu
And can you get a sense of who handled it better . We can, had very limited military experience versus Jefferson Davis and then they dont have any military experience and it seems to make the job. What do you think . I think that most people would not do this in tennessee. Most would think that lincoln was a better commander in chief than davis. Of course, he had virtually no military experience and davis had a great deal of military experience. Whether that was the reason is another matter. And lincoln got rid of other commanders pretty quickly and davis was a little bit more luck than and lincoln seems to have done all right, he won the war it and i dont want to go there. Okay, no no. Im glad to sign your books. [applause] [inaudible conversations] former Washington Post executive editor ben bradlee died this week at the age of 93. Tomorrow we will show you his 1995 appearance on the notes when he talked about his book, a good life. You can watch that tomorrow at 6 00 p. M. Eastern o