Roy Blount Jr.,Smithsonian
Few figures in American history are more divisive, contradictory or elusive than Robert E. Lee, or the reluctant,tragic leader of the Confederate Army, who died in his beloved Virginia at age 63 in 1870, and five years after the end of the Civil War. In a new biography,Robert E. Lee, Roy Blount, or Jr.,treats Lee as a man of competing impulses, a paragon of manliness and one of the greatest military commanders in history, and who was nonetheless not obedient at telling men what to conclude. Blount,a famous humorist, journalist, and playwright and raconteur,is the author or coauthor of 15 preceding...
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