Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private LettersPenguin, 3 мая 2007 г. - Всего страниц: 688 “Pryor’s biography helps part with a lot of stupid out there about Lee – chiefly, that he was, somehow, ‘anti-slavery.’” – Ta-Nehisi Coates, theatlantic.com An “unorthodox, critical, and engaging biography” (Boston Globe) – Winner of The Lincoln Prize Robert E. Lee is remembered by history as a tragic figure, stoic and brave but distant and enigmatic. Using dozens of previously unpublished letters as departure points, Pryor produces a stunning personal account of Lee's military ability, shedding new light on every aspect of the complex and contradictory general's life story. Explained for the first time in the context of the young United States's tumultuous societal developments, Lee's actions reveal a man forced to play a leading role in the formation of the nation at the cost of his private happiness. |
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... George Washington had once cast a ballot electing him to Congress, Lee was sunk into a slough of despair. Once he had written of a friend who was confined for debt that it “would have been comparative humanity to have put him to death ...
... George Washington had once cast a ballot electing him to Congress, Lee was sunk into a slough of despair. Once he had written of a friend who was confined for debt that it “would have been comparative humanity to have put him to death ...
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... George Washington's hometown. Lafayette made several visits there, but his official entry was on October 16, 1824. The procession included 2,000 militiamen, artillery salutes, bands, and a carriage holding George Washington's war tents ...
... George Washington's hometown. Lafayette made several visits there, but his official entry was on October 16, 1824. The procession included 2,000 militiamen, artillery salutes, bands, and a carriage holding George Washington's war tents ...
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... George Washington Parke Custis accompanied him on many of his official activities, and it was entirely appropriate that he do so. Custis had been raised at Mount Vernon, knew Washington intimately, and was a veritable memory bank of ...
... George Washington Parke Custis accompanied him on many of his official activities, and it was entirely appropriate that he do so. Custis had been raised at Mount Vernon, knew Washington intimately, and was a veritable memory bank of ...
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... George Hadfield, one of the early designers of the Capitol building —who used the Grecian elements just coming into vogue to plan a mansion that mirrored the imposing public buildings being constructed across the river. The classical ...
... George Hadfield, one of the early designers of the Capitol building —who used the Grecian elements just coming into vogue to plan a mansion that mirrored the imposing public buildings being constructed across the river. The classical ...
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... George Washington had loved. Robert E. Lee would one day describe it as “a House any one might see with half an eye.”19 With the completion of the north wing, Custis crowded the Mount Vernon memorabilia into the small space and then ...
... George Washington had loved. Robert E. Lee would one day describe it as “a House any one might see with half an eye.”19 With the completion of the north wing, Custis crowded the Mount Vernon memorabilia into the small space and then ...
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Seven Arias | |
Pioneers | |
Odyssey | |
Theory Meets Reality | |
Upon a Fearful Summons | |
Field of Honor | |
A GeneralIs a Rare Product | |
ApogeePerigee | |
Overwhelmed | |
The Political Animal | |
The Family Circle | |
Humanity and the | |
Adrenaline | |
Crenellations | |
BlackEyed Fancies | |
The Headache | |
Mutable Shield | |
Ragged Individualists 399 | |
A Leap in the Dark | |
Blurred Vision | |
If Vanquished I Am Still Victorious | |
Acknowledgments | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Index | |
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