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(3.77) | 1 | "From the acclaimed author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion--a sweeping, singularly immediate, and intimate biography of the Confederate general and his fateful decision to betray his nation in order to defend his home state and uphold the slave system he claimed to oppose"-- |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. With the best of the young men dead, the country ruined, And the sourness of Military District No. 1, The War was an after-image, a dominant lightning To dazzle the stunned eyes of a generation. But Lee in his college office in Lexington, The man beyond criticism, spoke reconciliation. Slavery at last was gone. Over yet one more century As the wounds heal up, the flaws start slowly to fade. - Robert Conquest, "The Idea of Virginia," Collected Poems (2020) | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. (Prologue) This book began in 2014, in what now seems like almost another world, with a single question: How do you write the biography of someone who commits treason? Leave the sprawl of the national metropolis behind and drive south into Virginia on the crowded superhighway that leads to Fredericksburg. | |
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Lee was and remains to me enigmatic, polarizing, and intriguing but having read the book I now know why I feel that way. It brings out so much in what this man not only stood for but the character that drove his stand and his haunting childhood tied to his famous but very wayward father, "Lighthorse Harry. From start to finish the one thing that becomes very evident about Robert E. Lee is that he stuck to his principles of his interpretation of right, honor, and duty. Unfortunately to a very misguided and lost cause.
The great tragedy of this man is that had he stayed on the Federal side to head off the break up of the country which he said he was for how different that war and the duration might have been. His brilliance or perceived brilliance should have been decisive considering the military leadership we as a country were saddled with from the start.
I was intrigued my his extensive family and how important that was to him despite his prolonged absences. His steadfastness to what he saw as honor and duty to his native Virginia never wavered even after the war and I saw that he never did seem to learn how wrong he was. The recent movements to remove his monuments seem justified to me as there is little to respect or honor on what he represented. ( )