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 Using dozens of previously unpublished letters as departure points, Pryor produces a stunning personal account of Lee's military ability, shedding new light on every aspect of the complex and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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... Called Lee's Legion, the 300 troops were equipped with green jackets, bearskin helmets, and long-bore pistols. They were granted an extraordinary amount of independence, essentially reporting only to the commander in chief.7 Light-Horse ...
... Called Lee's Legion, the 300 troops were equipped with green jackets, bearskin helmets, and long-bore pistols. They were granted an extraordinary amount of independence, essentially reporting only to the commander in chief.7 Light-Horse ...
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... called “calculated daring,” a willingness to take risks and to challenge superior forces, but only under conditions that he had assessed personally and with tactics that were of his own design. At the same time he showed a genius for ...
... called “calculated daring,” a willingness to take risks and to challenge superior forces, but only under conditions that he had assessed personally and with tactics that were of his own design. At the same time he showed a genius for ...
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... called the whole encounter “unintentional,” but it left a set of questions that were difficult to answer.17 Exhausted emotionally and physically after nearly seven years of war, and believing he had been slighted in the official ...
... called the whole encounter “unintentional,” but it left a set of questions that were difficult to answer.17 Exhausted emotionally and physically after nearly seven years of war, and believing he had been slighted in the official ...
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... called, would later remember his parents playing chess together, the light of the fire glowing on their faces, and how he had ridden on the shoulders of his father to attend the theater, which Henry Lee adored.35 Perhaps it was the ...
... called, would later remember his parents playing chess together, the light of the fire glowing on their faces, and how he had ridden on the shoulders of his father to attend the theater, which Henry Lee adored.35 Perhaps it was the ...
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... called it. He had been arrested against a small writ for $425, plus damages, but the collective embarrassment of his affairs was large and complex, and even Lee admitted “the thing is so obscured & so mixed...that I cannot speak with ...
... called it. He had been arrested against a small writ for $425, plus damages, but the collective embarrassment of his affairs was large and complex, and even Lee admitted “the thing is so obscured & so mixed...that I cannot speak with ...
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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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