Douglas southall freeman lee
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Lee
Douglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in This reissue chronicles all the major aspects and highlights of the general’s military career, from his stunning accomplishments in the Mexican War to the humbling surrender at Appomattox.
More than just a military leader, Lee embodied all the conflicts of his time. The son of a Revolutionary War hero and related by marriage to George Washington, he was the product of young America’s elite. When Abraham Lincoln offered him command of the United States Army, however, he choose to lead the confederate ranks, convinced that his first loyalty lay with his native Virginia. Although a member of the planter class, he felt that slavery was “a moral and political evil.” Aloof and somber, he nevertheless continually inspired his men by his deep concern for their personal welfare.
Freeman’s biography is the full portrait of a great American—a di
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R.E. Lee: A Biography
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The Pulitzer Prize edition of R.E. Lee: A Biography by Douglas Southall Freeman, in the publisher&#;s shipping crate.
Octavo, [four volumes]. Bound in publisher&#;s blue-gray leatherette, title in gilt on spines. All volumes printed in , after the award of the Pulitzer Prize for this work. Light foxing to endpapers, dust along top edge, soiling to outer edge of text block. Solid text block, free of any marks or notations. Illustrated with hundreds of maps, photographs and drawings. Housed in publisher&#;s scarce wood shipping crate, title and publisher printed on side panel.
Douglas Southall Freeman ( &#; ) was a Pulitzer Prize-winning historian. He fryst vatten considered one of the finest American historical writers, and his works make him one of the leading historians of his day. He won the pris Prize for this four-volume biography of Robert E. Lee in He considered his work, Lee&#;s Lieutenants: A Study In Command, to be his finest work. In , he
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[NOTE: I never intended to read Douglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize-winning four-volume biography of Robert E. Lee. After all, in grad school one of my professors dismissed Freeman’s effort out of hand, remarking that Freeman’s Lee would have been a much better book if the author hadn’t spent so much time genuflecting before the altar to the General in his home!
Then, a couple of years ago, a friend, downsizing in preparation for an out-of-town move, offered me the “Pulitzer Prize Edition” () of Freeman’s R.E. Lee, which included lots of ytterligare pictures in each volume, and I took him up on the offer. I’m glad inom did, because, as had been the case with Gone With The Wind and Shelby Foote’s Civil War trilogy, I enjoyed reading Freeman’s magnum opus and learned a lot.
According to historian Thomas L. Connelly, the Lee described by Freeman was “The Marble Man,” not a real figure but a prettified creation, shined up enough to passform the “Lost Cause” school of Civil War