Brion McClanahan discusses Elizabeth Brown Pryor’s Lincoln Prize winning book Reading the Man: A Portrait of Robert E. Lee Through His Personal Letters.
You might also enjoy these articles...
Conservative as “Defender of Liberty”
In 1960, the great Southern political philosopher Richard Weaver penned an essay titled “Conservatism and Libertarianism: The Common Ground.” Most people considered Weaver to be a “conservative,” and he accepted the term, but he also… »
Robert E. Lee: The Soldier
“He [Lee] was a foe without hate; a friend without treachery; a soldier without cruelty; a victor without oppression, and a victim without murmuring…a Christian without hypocrisy…He was a Caesar, without his ambition; Frederick, without… »
Twitter Historians Distort History, Again.
Marjorie Taylor Greene forced the political left into an apoplectic rage two weeks ago when they discovered she intended to form an “America First Caucus” based on “Anglo-Saxon political traditions.” Clearly, this showed that Representative… »
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.