The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, October 1st, 2003
Robert E. Lee. By ROY BLOUNT, JR. New York: Penguin Putnam, Inc., 2003. xii, 210 pp. $19.95.
IN four brilliantly written volumes, Douglas Southall Freeman described the public life of Robert E. Lee while purposefully avoiding the general's private life or psychological make-up. His image of Lee as a "marble man" has led many historians to assume that Lee closed himself off to the rest of the world, that he sought shelter behind the facade of Victorian perfectibility, and that he ultimately repressed his true self. This is a questionable assumption to be sure, and it is based largely upon Free...
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