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 Using dozens of previously unpublished letters as departure points, Pryor produces a stunning personal account of Lee's military ability, shedding new light on every aspect of the complex and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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A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters Elizabeth Brown Pryor. Preface. ROBERT. E. LEE'S personal saga is one of the most riveting stories of American history. It is a family tale; a national epic; a theater piece worthy of ...
A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters Elizabeth Brown Pryor. Preface. ROBERT. E. LEE'S personal saga is one of the most riveting stories of American history. It is a family tale; a national epic; a theater piece worthy of ...
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... Lee's own words, I set out to do just that. Along the way I discovered a treasure trove of unpublished or unused documents in scores of archives and attics and trunks. I was greatly aided in this by Lee's descendants, who generously ...
... Lee's own words, I set out to do just that. Along the way I discovered a treasure trove of unpublished or unused documents in scores of archives and attics and trunks. I was greatly aided in this by Lee's descendants, who generously ...
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... Lees were particularly sensitive to the importance of family papers. Ann Lee's husband, Revolutionary War hero LightHorse Harry Lee, had been forced by ill health and questionable financial speculation into West Indian exile when Robert ...
... Lees were particularly sensitive to the importance of family papers. Ann Lee's husband, Revolutionary War hero LightHorse Harry Lee, had been forced by ill health and questionable financial speculation into West Indian exile when Robert ...
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... Lee's letters, dated from “twenty years or more.”34 H. L. Wright, one of many blue-coated soldiers who carried off keepsakes, wrote a somewhat abashed note to Lee's daughter Mary in the 1880s, returning letters from her father and ...
... Lee's letters, dated from “twenty years or more.”34 H. L. Wright, one of many blue-coated soldiers who carried off keepsakes, wrote a somewhat abashed note to Lee's daughter Mary in the 1880s, returning letters from her father and ...
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... Lee's immediate family to lower Virginia. At some point the Lee descendants again came into possession of them, though they are still today not sure how it happened. That the letters were saved may perhaps be due to an extraordinary ...
... Lee's immediate family to lower Virginia. At some point the Lee descendants again came into possession of them, though they are still today not sure how it happened. That the letters were saved may perhaps be due to an extraordinary ...
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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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