num_pages: 272
description: Confederate Civil War general Robert E. Lee has not received favorable press inrecent years. Beginning with Thomas Connelly's The Marble Man in 1977, a number of historians have written books designed to topple Lee from his lofty pedestal. In Duty Faithfully Performed, noted biographer John M. Taylor ably counters those revisionist criticisms with a forceful defense of General Lee's character and military accomplishments. Focusing on Lee's personal life and values, on his generalship, and on the erstwhile Confederacy's "Lee cult," Duty Faithfully Performed is a gracefully written counter-revisionist biography of one of the most complex and controversial men in American history.
language: English
title: Duty Faithfully Performed: Robert E. Lee and His Critics
titlecomplete: Duty Faithfully Performed: Robert E. Lee and His Critics
genres: Civil War, American Civil War
ratings_count: 10
publisher: Potomac Books