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The Enduring Relevance of Robert E. Lee - The Ideological Warfare Underpinning the American Civil War (Paperback)
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The Enduring Relevance of Robert E. Lee - The Ideological Warfare Underpinning the American Civil War (Paperback)
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The sesquicentennial of the American Civil War presents a unique
opportunity to consider the motivation behind General Robert E.
Lee's efforts to defend the Confederacy against his once beloved
United States. What will be learned from this book is that General
Lee was following in the footsteps of his idol General George
Washington. General Lee was not fighting to perpetuate and expand
slavery, self-aggrandizement, or military glory. He was fighting
for the 1776 principles of government based upon the consent of the
governed, the 1789 principles of the rule of law, and for a
Judeo-Christian based civilization. While Lee's military genius and
commitment to duty are widely acknowledged, his political acumen
is, for the most part, underrated. Master of the art of politics as
much as war, which is politics by other means, Lee considered both
normative arts concerned with the happiness and noble actions of
the citizens. In fact, Lee's successes and failures on the
battlefield were due in large measure to his worldview that if the
Confederacy were to survive its citizenry must act nobly. According
to Lee, it is in noble actions that human happiness is to be
achieved. For Lee, the soldier and citizen performing their
respective duties were on the paths to individual happiness and,
ultimately, a free and independent CSA. In The Enduring Relevance
of Robert E. Lee Marshall L. DeRosa uses the American Civil War and
the figure of Robert E. Lee to consider the role of political
leadership under extremely difficult circumstances and the proper
response to those circumstances. DeRosa examines Lee as a
politician rather than just a military leader and finds that many
of Lee's assertions are still relevant today. DeRosa reveals Lee's
insights and his awareness that the victory of the Union over the
Confederacy placed America on the path towards the demise of
government based upon the consent of the governed, the rule of law,
and the Judeo-Christian American civilization.
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