Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Book Review

by W.T. Thurbon

Robert E. Lee: A Biography by Clifford Deweley (GDII&MS 1970 105/-d.)- (apparently first published in the US in 1965). This is a massive book of about 750 pages a sympathetic and well documented one volume life of Lee, critical of Jefferson Davis and with a southern view of Lincoln. "Marse Robert" was a most attractive character one of the most attractive I think of all military men. Second only to Hannibal as the most appealing general of a side which ultimately lost. It is an interesting thought what the outcome of the War would have been if Lee and Lincoln had been on the same side: either North or South. The book seems to make clear how the War has left a bitter legacy in the South, and after a century still affects American life.


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