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Robert E. Lee: A Life

byAllen Guelzo

Robert E. Lee is Allen Guelzo's biographical portrait of a Life. By tracing causes alongside consequences, the narrative gives readers both a grounded account and a route into the connected fields of biography & autobiography and history. Throughout, the author balances an accessible narrative with the complexity needed to understand motives, constraints, and disputed interpretations. What emerges is a nuanced account of the subject, its immediate consequences, and its wider meaning. The approach makes a specialized subject understandable without stripping away its tensions or ambiguity.

Publisher

Knopf

Publication date

Sep 28, 2021

Format

Print edition

Pages

608

ISBN

9781101946220