Chapel Hill, NC: The University of North Carolina Press, Date: 2006. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 295 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. Owner's name / blind stamp front end paper. 2006. The University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0807857696 9780807857694 [US]

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The University of North Carolina Press, Date: 2006-08-06. paperback. New. 6x0x9. 2006. The University of North Carolina Press ISBN 0807857696 9780807857694 [US]

Paperback / softback. New. Was Robert Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy? This work offers the author's refined thinking on Lee, exploring the relationship between Lee's operations and Confederate morale, and the quality of his generalship. ISBN 0807857696 9780807857694 [GB]

ISBN10: 0807857696, ISBN13: 9780807857694, [publisher: The University Of North Carolina Press] Softcover nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - Was Robert E. Lee a gifted soldier whose only weaknesses lay in the depth of his loyalty to his troops, affection for his lieutenants, and dedication to the cause of the Confederacy Or was he an ineffective leader and poor tactician whose reputation was drastically inflated by early biographers and Lost Cause apologists These divergent characterizations represent the poles between which scholarly and popular opinion on Lee has swung over time. Now, in eight essays, Gary Gallagher offers his own refined thinking on Lee, exploring the relationship between Lee's operations and Confederate morale, the quality of his generalship, and the question of how best to handle his legacy in light of the many distortions that grew out of Lost Cause historiography.Using a host of contemporary sources, Gallagher demonstrates the remarkable faith that soldiers and citizens maintained in Lee's leadership even after his army's fortunes had begun to erode. Gallagher also engages aspects of the Lee myth with an eye toward how admirers have insisted that their hero's faults as a general represented exaggerations of his personal virtues. Finally, Gallagher considers whether it is useful--or desirable--to separate legitimate Lost Cause arguments from the transparently false ones relating to slavery and ...
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