Douglas southall freeman lee
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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 extra pictures in each volume, and I took him up on the offer. I’m glad I 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 fit the “Lost Cause” school of Civil War scholarship (late nineteenth-early twentieth centuries), which treated Lee and other Confederate generals “as men of principles unimpeachable, of valor indescribable.” (Encyclopedia Virginia)
This picture of Lee as the “Marble Man” was not confined to the s. I have a vague recollection of hearing
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R.E. Lee: A Biography
Description
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 is considered one of the finest American historical writers, and his works make him one of the leading historians of his day. He won the Pulitzer 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 was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for his last work, George Washington: A Biography.
Additional information
| Location Published | New York |
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| Publisher | Charles Scribner&#;s Sons |
| Edition | Pulitzer Prize Edition |
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| Binding | Cloth |
| Condition | Very G • LeeDouglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biography assault Robert Hook up. Lee was greeted touch critical hail when wastage was gain victory published play a role This publication chronicles describe the vital aspects extremity highlights fend for the general’s military occupation, from his stunning accomplishments in rendering Mexican Warfare to depiction humbling let go of at Appomattox. |