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Robert E. Lee: A Biography by Thomas, Emory M
- Bookseller: Gene Sperry Books
 (US)
- Seller Inventory #: 74949
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN 10: 0393037304
- ISBN 13: 9780393037302
- Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
- Date published: 1995
- Size: 6.75 x 9.75 x 1.75 inches
- Weight: 1.95 pounds
Description
Thomas, Emory M., W.W. Norton & Co., c1995, 1st Edition (no price on dj flap, military BCE?), black cloth (hard cover), near fine with near fine dj, 472 pp with notes, bibliography & index, B&W photographuc & other illus., tall 8vo, ISBN: 0393037304, "The life of Robert E. Lee is a story of triumph...in this probing and personal biography, Emory Thomas's thorough examination of Lee's life reveals more than the man did himself, allowing us to find meaning in Lee's successes and failures...
DJ : Short for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps around the binding of a book.
8vo : Short for Octavo, A book whose page size is approximately 8-10 inches tall. The size is based on a sheet of paper 25 inches by 38 inches, the size of paper traditionally used by book printers, which has been folded and cut into 16 pages..
Unfortunately often misunderstood to mean 8 volumes.
Cloth : Generally refers to a hardcover with cloth covering the outside of the book covers.
Book summary
Emory M. Thomas's biography of Lee is, in the author's own words, "post-revisionist". He steers a middle course between the authoritative, if hagiographic, Douglas Southall Freeman four-volume biography, and the debunking "The Marble Man," by Thomas L. Connelly.
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