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The Making of Robert E. Lee

The Making of Robert E. Lee

The Making of Robert E. Lee

The Making of Robert E. Lee

por Michael Fellman

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Perhaps no other American historical figure is as shrouded in legend as General Robert E. Lee. Long extolled as the perfect gentleman as well as the consummate military commander, Lee—known as the Marble Man—has been venerated more than understood. During his lifetime, he contributed to this picture through the austerity and rigid control he tried to impose on himself.

The Making of Robert E. Lee reveals the flesh-and-blood Lee—not to expose him but to better understand a man who was perhaps the most fervent practitioner of the Southern code of conduct, behind which he camouflaged much of his character.

With unprecedented insight into Robert E. Lee's personal and public lives, Michael Fellman humanizes this one-dimensional icon, placing him within history rather than above it. With both detachment and compassion, Fellman deftly probes beneath the surface to show Lee as a deeply conflicted man, one with sometimes surprising views on sexuality, family, religion, and politics, as well as military practice. This realistic portrayal situates Lee firmly in the contexts of his time, place, class, gender, and race.

Although Lee tried to be a virtuous, even perfect man, he often flirted extravagantly—and perhaps did more—with women other than his wife. While he strove to be a kind and honest leader, he was extremely distant from and controlling of both his sons and the soldiers in his Civil War army. With his deeply ingrained habits of command, Lee the aristocratic disciplinarian looked down upon the white lower orders as he did upon slaves.

After a distinguished if conventional career in the peacetime American army, Lee chose to join the Confederate cause on account of his unquestioning identification with the values and interests of the Virginia slave holding class. Something of a failure during the first year of combat, Lee was thrust into command at a crucial juncture in the war, just as the Union army approached Richmond, the Confederate capital. Fellman argues that "the Civil War rescued Robert E. Lee from marginality and obscurity."

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Michael Fellman lives in Vancouver, British Columbia, where he is a professor of history at Simon Fraser University. He is the author of five previous books, including Inside War: The Guerrilla Conflict in Missouri during the American Civil War and Citizen Sherman: A Life of William Tecumseh Sherman.

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Pacific Arbor US (US)
Nº do estoque do livreiro
A00000206
Título
The Making of Robert E. Lee
Autor
Michael Fellman
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New
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1
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ISBN 10
0679456503
ISBN 13
9780679456506
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Random House Publishing Group
Local de publicação
New York
Esta edição foi publicada pela primeira vez
2000-11-07

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