This is the story of a house, -Brierfield,- and incidentally of a man, Jefferson Davis, and his family. The author traces the story of -Brierfield- from its construction in the antebellum period to its final disappearance in the twentieth century, a victim of war, floods, and fire. Most people associate Jefferson Davis with -Beauvoir,- his home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast in the years after 1865, but -Brierfield- was his home during the most productive years of his life. We see Davis here as a young planter, a United States Representative and Senator, a Mexican War hero, United States...