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No other general in American history has attracted the attention and adoration accorded to Robert Edward Lee, the peerless chieftain of the Confederacy. Indeed, in all of history, only Napoleon can vie with Lee for the hold he maintains on the imagination of students and admirers around the globe. Succeeding generations have invented and reinvented Lee, trying to make him a man for their own times, and year after year the writings of worshipers and revisionists--and occasionally even revilers--continue to come out. It is time for a step back, to take a reflective look at Lee through neither the eyes of adoration nor iconoclasm, and that is what eminent Southern historian Charles P. Roland does in Reflections on Lee: A Historian's Assessment. One of the country's most distinguished students of the South and the Civil War, Roland used the accumulated wisdom of a long career to draw a fresh picture of Lee--the man, the soldier, the symbol.
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Dr. Charles P. Roland is emeritus professor of history at the University of Kentucky and has enjoyed a long, distinguished career as an educator and historian, including service as the visiting professor of military history at both the United States Army War College and the United States Military Academy. His biography Albert Sidney Johnston: Soldier of Three Republics is the definitive study of that controversial Confederate general. Among his other Civil War works are The Confederacy and An American Iliad: The Story of the Civil War. A former president of the Southern Historical Association, Dr. Roland lives in Lexington, Kentucky, with his wife, Allie Lee.
