Lee: An Abridgement of the 4 Volume Biography

Freeman, Douglas Southall; Abridgment by Richard Harwell; Foreword by James M. McPherson

ISBN 10: 0684829533 / ISBN 13: 9780684829531

Published by Scribner, New York, 1997

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8vo. xxxiii, 601 pages, indexed. Soft cover bound in black and grey pictorial wrappers. Light wear to the binding. Text is clean and sound.

Seller Inventory # 056625

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lee: An Abridgement of the 4 Volume Biography
• Publisher: Scribner, New York
• Publication Date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0684829533
• ISBN 13: 9780684829531
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good
• Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
  • Civil War

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Synopsis

Douglas Southall Freeman’s Pulitzer Prize–winning biography of Robert E. Lee was greeted with critical acclaim when it was first published in 1935. This reissue chronicles all the major aspects and highlights of the general’s military career, from his stunning accomplishments in the Mexican War to the humbling surrender at Appomattox.

More than just a military leader, Lee embodied all the conflicts of his time. The son of a Revolutionary War hero and related by marriage to George Washington, he was the product of young America’s elite. When Abraham Lincoln offered him command of the United States Army, however, he choose to lead the confederate ranks, convinced that his first loyalty lay with his native Virginia. Although a member of the planter class, he felt that slavery was “a moral and political evil.” Aloof and somber, he nevertheless continually inspired his men by his deep concern for their personal welfare.

Freeman’s biography is the full portrait of a great American—a distinguished, scholarly, yet eminently readable classic that has linked Freeman to Lee as irrevocably as Boswell to Dr. Johnson.

About the Author

Douglas Southall Freeman, the son of a Confederate soldier, was born in Lynchburg, Virginia, in 1886. He was commissioned to write a one-volume biography of Lee in 1915, but his research and writings over two decades produced four large volumes. Freeman won another Pulitzer Prize for his six-volume definitive biography of George Washington. He died in 1953.