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 Using dozens of previously unpublished letters as departure points, Pryor produces a stunning personal account of Lee's military ability, shedding new light on every aspect of the complex and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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... Mary Lee dug up the buried trunks after the war, she found Washington's letters had rotted, and she wept bitterly as she burned the fragments. The precious few that remained intact were saved for her children.32 But Robert E. Lee's ...
... Mary Lee dug up the buried trunks after the war, she found Washington's letters had rotted, and she wept bitterly as she burned the fragments. The precious few that remained intact were saved for her children.32 But Robert E. Lee's ...
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... Mary let her, as at all times, [be] affectionately remembered & my best respects for Miss Stuart. In the purest & warmest friendship, yours RR Gurley Mrs Custis P.S. I should have told Miss Mary that her beautiful print of Gen Lafayette ...
... Mary let her, as at all times, [be] affectionately remembered & my best respects for Miss Stuart. In the purest & warmest friendship, yours RR Gurley Mrs Custis P.S. I should have told Miss Mary that her beautiful print of Gen Lafayette ...
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... Mary Anna Custis and her mother. Years later Mary told a friend that her attention had been drawn that day by her seventeen-year-old cousin Robert Lee, who as junior marshal was taking his first steps in the military pageant that was to ...
... Mary Anna Custis and her mother. Years later Mary told a friend that her attention had been drawn that day by her seventeen-year-old cousin Robert Lee, who as junior marshal was taking his first steps in the military pageant that was to ...
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... Mary Lee Fitzhugh from childhood, and when they married in July 1804, they were already linked through numberless family and social associations. Mary—or Molly, as she was called—was the daughter of William Fitzhugh of Chatham, one of ...
... Mary Lee Fitzhugh from childhood, and when they married in July 1804, they were already linked through numberless family and social associations. Mary—or Molly, as she was called—was the daughter of William Fitzhugh of Chatham, one of ...
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... Mary. He had been an exceptional young man: wonderfully handsome, known for his liberality and charity, an early opponent of slavery, and a benefactor to many of his relatives, the Lees notably among them. His death was mysterious ...
... Mary. He had been an exceptional young man: wonderfully handsome, known for his liberality and charity, an early opponent of slavery, and a benefactor to many of his relatives, the Lees notably among them. His death was mysterious ...
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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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