Full name: Robert E. Lee: A Biography

Author: Emory M. Thomas Year: 1995 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Biographies, History, Non Fiction Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780393316315 0393316319

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. Similar books: Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman Lee by Charles Bracelen Flood Reading the Man by Elizabeth Brown Pryor R. E. Lee by Douglas Southall Freeman Stonewall Jackson by James I. Robertson Sherman by Lee Kennett Clouds of Glory by Michael Korda The Marble Man by Thomas Lawrence Connelly Jeb Stuart by Burke Davis George B. McClellan by Stephen W. Sears Fierce Patriot by Robert L. O'Connell Rebel Yell by S. C. Gwynne Lee Considered by Alan T. Nolan The Better Angel by Roy Morris Jr. American Scoundrel by Thomas Keneally The Wright Brothers by David McCullough Empire of the Summer Moon by S. C. Gwynne The Professor and the Madman by Simon Winchester Zeitoun by Dave Eggers Mobituaries by Mo Rocca