The Making of Robert E. Lee
- ISBN-10
- 0801874114
- ISBN-13
- 9780801874116
- Category
- Biography & Autobiography
- Pages
- 360
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2003-04-07
- Publisher
- JHU Press
- Author
- Michael Fellman
Description
With rigorous research and unprecedented insight into Robert E. Lee's personal and public lives, Michael Fellman here uncovers the intelligent, ambitious, and often troubled man behind the legend, exploring his life within the social, cultural, and political context of the nineteenth-century American South.
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