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 Using dozens of previously unpublished letters as departure points, Pryor produces a stunning personal account of Lee's military ability, shedding new light on every aspect of the complex and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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... wanted to use a sympathy letter to raise funds for the Confederate effort. “It was intended for no eye but [the mother's],” Lee wrote. “If she is willing for its publication & you think it will in any way serve your purpose...I shall ...
... wanted to use a sympathy letter to raise funds for the Confederate effort. “It was intended for no eye but [the mother's],” Lee wrote. “If she is willing for its publication & you think it will in any way serve your purpose...I shall ...
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... wanted but the first impulse to have been made useful & happy. I have heard of many instances of rare capacities—but waste followed possession as tho' it were irresistible—In fact it may have been so—Society (that of Virginia I mean) ...
... wanted but the first impulse to have been made useful & happy. I have heard of many instances of rare capacities—but waste followed possession as tho' it were irresistible—In fact it may have been so—Society (that of Virginia I mean) ...
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... wanted to underscore that point to several European leaders. What better way to tie the country together and rekindle the spirit that had stirred patriots nearly half a century before than to reclaim its near-legendary champion, whose ...
... wanted to underscore that point to several European leaders. What better way to tie the country together and rekindle the spirit that had stirred patriots nearly half a century before than to reclaim its near-legendary champion, whose ...
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... must get Something in honor of La Fayette There's a La Fayette watchchain, a La Fayette hat, A La Fayette this, and a La Fayette that. But I wanted something as lasting as life As I took to myself a La Fayette wife.6 Public.
... must get Something in honor of La Fayette There's a La Fayette watchchain, a La Fayette hat, A La Fayette this, and a La Fayette that. But I wanted something as lasting as life As I took to myself a La Fayette wife.6 Public.
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... wanted badly to enter the academy, but to do so he had to curry the kind of political favor he would later come to hate. Nelly Custis Lewis, half brother Henry, and cousin William Henry Fitzhugh used their influence to help him gain ...
... wanted badly to enter the academy, but to do so he had to curry the kind of political favor he would later come to hate. Nelly Custis Lewis, half brother Henry, and cousin William Henry Fitzhugh used their influence to help him gain ...
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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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