Brion McClanahan discusses Elizabeth Brown Pryor’s Lincoln Prize winning book Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Personal Letters.
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Thank you, sir. I have read bits and parts of the book and find it a clearly an effort to denigrate Lee by ascribing her own biases and prejudices to portions of Lee’s writings. I find it shameful that it is so warmly received by academics. But such seems to be the current mode of pop history.