Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters

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Penguin, 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 Using dozens of previously unpublished letters as departure points, Pryor produces a stunning personal account of Lee's military ability, shedding new light on every aspect of the complex and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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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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Elizabeth Brown Pryor (1951–2015) combined careers as an award-winning historian and a senior diplomat in the American Foreign Service. She was the author of the biography Clara Barton: Professional Angel, considered the authoritative work on the founder of the American Red Cross, and Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Private Letters, which won the 2008 Lincoln Prize, the 2007 Jefferson Davis Award, the 2008 Richard B. Harwell Book Award, and the 2007 Richard S. Slatten Award for Excellence in Virginia Biography. Her final book, Six Encounters With Lincoln:  A President Confronts Democracy and Its Demons, was published posthumously in February 2017.

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