Robert E. Lee

Title: Robert E. Lee
Category: History / North American History
Details: Words: 3669 | Pages: 15.6 (approximately 235 words/page)

Robert E. Lee

Introduction         Few episodes in history are more painful to Americans than the Civil War, fought between the North and the South. This biography, Great American Generals - Robert E. Lee, by Ian Hogg, takes the reader through the life of one of the greatest heroes of that war, Robert E. Lee. It is a thorough, in depth record of the life of Lee and begins with a detailed account of his family history and his birth, …showed first 75 words of 3669 total…

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…showed last 75 words of 3669 total…parent's lives.         Hogg presents this painful episode in America's history in a balanced, non-judgemental way. He portrays Lee as a man of great integrity and honor, a true Southern gentleman, and casts no slurs concerning the fact that Lee was on the losing side of a war in which there were no winners.         This is an exciting and informative book and is one of the more enjoyable books which are required reading for this course.

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