Biography of robert e lee book

The book on Lee is a good look at his entire life, not just his Civil War years.!

Robert E. Lee: A Biography, by Allen C. Guelzo, Knopf, New York, 2021, $35

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The book on Lee is a good look at his entire life, not just his Civil War years.

Robert E. Lee was born on January 19, in Westmoreland County, Virginia.

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Reverential biographies, led by Douglas Southall Freeman’s four-volume Pulitzer Prize–winning 1934–35 work, have poured out since his death. Princeton historian Allen Guelzo’s latest offering brings matters up to date by emphasizing Lee’s racial views without detracting from his real achievements.

Lee’s father, Virginia planter and Revolutionary War hero Henry “Light Horse Harry” Lee III, went bankrupt in his retirement, was severely injured in the Baltimore riots of 1812 and abandoned his family when Robert was a child.

Although never poor, concern about money preoccupied the younger Lee, and Guelzo suggests that insecurity drove him seek appointment to West Point, which he was granted in 1825. The pre–Civil War army had no retirement system; officers received a salary until the day