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 Using dozens of previously unpublished letters as departure points, Pryor produces a stunning personal account of Lee's military ability, shedding new light on every aspect of the complex and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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... expressed it. Memoirs and journals, written with or without ulterior motives, and the more austere accounts in newspapers and public papers, are one-sided, or geared to an impersonal audience. They cannot match the conversational ...
... expressed it. Memoirs and journals, written with or without ulterior motives, and the more austere accounts in newspapers and public papers, are one-sided, or geared to an impersonal audience. They cannot match the conversational ...
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... expression of the ambivalence Lee has inspired. For every stirring word of praise there is an equally strong piece of damnation; for every noble action, a seemingly despicable deed. He was never boring, always quick to charm, but hard ...
... expression of the ambivalence Lee has inspired. For every stirring word of praise there is an equally strong piece of damnation; for every noble action, a seemingly despicable deed. He was never boring, always quick to charm, but hard ...
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... expressed the family's official line when he said that “a disposition to aim too high, or at too much” was what had ruined his “great father, in dispite of his mighty prowess.”46 The details of General Lee's tortured end may have been ...
... expressed the family's official line when he said that “a disposition to aim too high, or at too much” was what had ruined his “great father, in dispite of his mighty prowess.”46 The details of General Lee's tortured end may have been ...
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... expressed strong reverence to revolutionary leaders and the ideals they served. No one embodied this heroic period more dramatically than the Marquis de Lafayette. On September 7, 1825, the day this letter was written, Lafayette was ...
... expressed strong reverence to revolutionary leaders and the ideals they served. No one embodied this heroic period more dramatically than the Marquis de Lafayette. On September 7, 1825, the day this letter was written, Lafayette was ...
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... expression, dressed in the appealing style of Jane Austen's heroines.21 She loved reading, and spent fifty years developing the estate's grounds, to rapturous praise.22 An early opponent of slavery, she personally oversaw its ...
... expression, dressed in the appealing style of Jane Austen's heroines.21 She loved reading, and spent fifty years developing the estate's grounds, to rapturous praise.22 An early opponent of slavery, she personally oversaw its ...
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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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