The Pit—And the Pendulum

REVIEWSrnThe Pit—And thernPendulumrnby Clyde WilsonrnThe Papers of Jefferson Davis,rnVolume 7: 1861rnEdited by Linda Lasswell Crist andrnMary Seaton DixrnBaton Rouge and London: LouisianarnState University Press;rn557 pp., $50.00rnOur Founding Fathers understoodrnthat they had inaugurated a republicanrnfederal union unique in its balancernand distribution of powers. Unlikerntheir descendants, who sclf . . .