Robert e lee biography korda engineering

Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Leeby Michael Korda. HarperCollins, Cloth, ISBN:   $

There are two difficulties in the path of any biography of Robert E.

Lee. One is that there is no central location of Lee papers. They are scattered across libraries and archives as remote from each other as the Huntington Library in San Marino, California, and the Special Collections of Washington & Lee University in Lexington, Virginia.

Robert e lee biography korda engineering

The other is Douglas Southall Freeman’s four-volume R.E. Lee (), which not only set the bar for Lee biography dauntingly high, but enshrined an already up-on-the-pedestal image of Lee as the chivalrous knight of the Lost Cause, sans peur et sans reproche.

Thomas Connelly rocked that pedestal in with The Marble Man: Robert E. Lee and His Image in American Society, but did not overthrow it. Nor did Alan T. Nolan with Lee Considered (). They could challenge Freeman’s admiring conclusions, but Freeman’s sheer bulk overwhelmed and outlas