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Robert E. Lee

A Biography

by Emory M. Thomas

ISBN: 0393037304
ISBN-13: 9780393037302
Format: Hardcover

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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"Thomas is the first to admit that it is hard to know Lee whole, since like most great men he was full of paradoxes. The picture Thomas paints in this very useful book is indeed a shot down the middle. But even down the middle with Lee is revisionist."    -- John C. Waugh

   -- Washington Post Book World

"...'Robert E. Lee', is a convincing compromise between the traditional view and the revisionist....This is a book that improves as it progresses. The most vivid depictions of Lee appear in the chronicles from the last months of the Civil War to the time of his death in 1870....In depicting Lee's frustrations and unhappiness, Emory Thomas has shattered the burdensome marble statue and given us a hero we can live with."    -- John Eisenhower

   -- New York Times Book Review

"He unquestionably admires the general for his many virtues, but he also takes note of Lee's limitations and weaknesses. He reveals not a deity or a superman but a fully rounded mortal, a more recognizable human personality....In this well-written book, Thomas declares that history, 'needs Robert E. Lee whole.' Thanks to the author of this insightful and revealing study, it has now been provided."    -- Robert V. Remini

   -- Los Angeles Times Book Review

Bibliographic Details

Publisher: W W Norton & Co Inc
Published date: 1995
Size: 6.75 x 9.75 inches
Weight: 1.95 pounds

Publisher's Notes

The life of Robert E. Lee is a story of triumph triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to become the towering figure who commanded the Confederate army in the American Civil War. But late in life Lee wrote what may be his most revealing phrase. He confessed that he "was always wanting something." This from perhaps the South's greatest hero, the man whose demeanor and presence in war were sufficient to inspire thousands to march to

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Emory M. Thomas

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