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100 1 $aPryor, Elizabeth Brown.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79149271
245 10 $aReading the man :$ba portrait of Robert E. Lee through his private letters /$cElizabeth Brown Pryor.
260 $aNew York :$bViking,$c2007.
300 $axxiv, 658 pages :$billustrations ;$c25 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [619]-640) and index.
520 1 $a"Over the past several years historian Elizabeth Brown Pryor has uncovered important documents in both private and public collections that give a personal account of Robert E. Lee's military ability, his beliefs, and his time. Reading the Man presents dozens of these previously unpublished letters in their entirety, using them as departure points for a series of surprising "historical excursions" that shed new light on every aspect of Lee, telling his life story with an innovative blend of analysis, historiography, and rich period detail. Through them we are able to look across time at Lee's troubled childhood, the hardening of his anti-abolitionist views, his celebrated but controversial battlefield performance, and his final years." "As Pryor's research shows, Robert E. Lee had no premonition of fame. He never saw himself as a tragic, heroic figure, and as a result his letters are remarkably open. Lee's guileless pen reveals a person who is frequently as confused, passive, and vulnerable as he is conscientious and brave; a witty storyteller and merry companion who suffers from loneliness and deep depression; a dreary moralizer who writes sexually suggestive letters to his female friends; and an intrepid commander whose very boldness may have lost him the war."--BOOK JACKET.
600 10 $aLee, Robert E.$q(Robert Edward),$d1807-1870.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80044891
600 10 $aLee, Robert E.$q(Robert Edward),$d1807-1870$vCorrespondence.
650 0 $aGenerals$zUnited States$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105089
650 0 $aGenerals$zConfederate States of America$vBiography.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2008105088
651 0 $aUnited States$xHistory$yCivil War, 1861-1865$vPersonal narratives, Confederate.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85140262
610 10 $aConfederate States of America.$bArmy$vBiography.
700 1 $aLee, Robert E.$q(Robert Edward),$d1807-1870.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n80044891
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