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Duty Faithfully Performed: Robert E. Lee and His Critics
Duty Faithfully Performed Robert E Lee and His Critics Author:John M. Taylor Confederate Civil War general Robert E. Lee has not received favorable press inrecent years. Beginning with Thomas Connelly's The Marble Man in 1977, a number of historians have written books designed to topple Lee from his lofty pedestal. In Duty Faithfully Performed, noted biographer John M. Taylor ably counters those revisionist criticisms ... more »with a forceful defense of General Lee's character and military accomplishments. Focusing on Lee's personal life and values, on his generalship, and on the erstwhile Confederacy's "Lee cult," Duty Faithfully Performed is a gracefully written counter-revisionist biography of one of the most complex and controversial men in American history.« less