Lee

Overview

Part Two Of Two Parts

Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert E. Lee captures the man as well as the general. The son of a Revolutionary War hero, Lee was a product of young America's elite. And he embodied all the conflicts of his time.

For Lee and others the Civil War was not about slavery but loyalty...to state or nation? When Lincoln offered him command of the U.S. Army, he chose instead the Confederacy, convinced that duty lay in serving his native Virginia.

This one-volume abridgement by Richard Harwell of Freeman's work contains all the power and drama of the original. The difference is that Lee is more accessible, the reader less cumbered with detail.

"Biography in the grand manner, military history par excellence." --Dumas Malone

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Bio of Douglas Southall Freeman

About this title: Douglas Southall Freeman (1886-1953) remains one of the greatest historians of the Civil War. His monumental biographies, including Lee's Lieutenants and the Pulitzer Prize-winning R. E. Lee, combined intellectual fervor with meticulous research and a graceful prose style. He received a second, posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his six-volume study of George Washington, still the definitive work on the first president. Freeman's literary accomplishments are all the more remarkable considering that he was also editor of the Richmond News Leader from 1915 to 1949 and made twice-daily radio news.

Bio of James M. McPherson

James M. McPherson is a distinguished Civil War historian. He won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for his book BATTLE CRY OF FREEDOM: THE CIVIL WAR ERA. His other publications include MARCHING TOWARD FREEDOM: BLACKS IN THE CIVIL WAR, Second Edition, (1991); ORDEAL BY FIRE: THE CIVIL WAR AND RECONSTRUCTION, Third Edition, (2001); ABRAHAM LINCOLN AND THE SECOND AMERICAN REVOLUTION (1991); FOR CAUSE AND COMRADES: WHY MEN FOUGHT IN THE CIVIL WAR (1997), which won the Lincoln Prize for 1998; and HALLOWED GROUND: A WALK AT GETTYSBURG (2003). Professor McPherson was president of the American Historical Association (2003-2004). He is the author of Chapters 13-17.

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Imprint

Scribner

Filesize

8.76 MB

Number of Pages

656

eBook ISBN

1439107491