Robert E. Lee: A Biography (Revised) - Brossura

Thomas, Emory M.

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ISBN 10: 0393316319 ISBN 13: 9780393316315

Casa editrice: W W Norton & Co Inc, 1997

Riassunto

Providing a thorough examination of the life of Robert E. Lee, a biography finds meaning in Lee's successes and failures and portrays him as a man struggling with personal inner torments who found release in the responsibilities of war

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The life of Robert E. Lee is a story not of defeat but of triumph-triumph in clearing his family name, triumph in marrying properly, triumph over the mighty Mississippi in his work as an engineer, and triumph over all other military men to become the towering figure who commanded the Confederate army in the American Civil War. But late in life Lee confessed that he "was always wanting something." In this probing and personal biography, Emory Thomas reveals more than the man himself did. Robert E. Lee has been, and continues to be, a symbol and hero in the American story. But in life, Thomas writes, Lee was both more and less than his legend. Here is the man behind the legend.

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• Editore: W W Norton & Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0393316319
• ISBN 13: 9780393316315
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 490