Join Sparks of History with noted author, journalist and lecturer James TraubSenior Fellow, Center on International Cooperation, NYUAuthor of:City on a Hill: Testing the American Dream at City CollegeThe Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the era of American World Power John Quincy Adams: Militant SpiritWhat was Liberalism?: The Past, Present, and Promise of a Noble Idea.Mr. Traub discusses his award winning book,Judah Benjamin, Counselor to the Confederacy, Yale University Press. Jewish Lives Series'This is, by far, the best and most readable short biography of Benjamin that exists'- Jonathan Sarna, author of American Judaism: A HistoryEpisode #8 Jefferson Davis and Judah Benjamin• Jefferson Davis: temperamental, fearful• Judah Benjamin: calming influence• Fought in Senate, challenged to a duel• Found Benjamin to be indispensable• Benjamin could do the work of 10 men• Balance Wheel, “Court Jew” 

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