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Reading the man : a portrait of Robert E. Lee through his private lettters

For the 200th anniversary of Robert E. Lee's birth, a new portrait drawing on previously unpublished correspondence. Lee's war correspondence is well known, but the great majority of his most intimate letters have never been made public. They reveal a far more complex and contradictory man than the one who comes most readily to the imagination
eBook, English, 2007
Viking, New York, 2007