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Audacity Personified - The Generalship of Robert E. Lee (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Audacity Personified - The Generalship of Robert E. Lee (Paperback, 2nd ed.)
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Despite the literary outpouring on the life of Robert E. Lee, the
southern chieftain remains an enigma. The existing scholarship is
so voluminous, complex, and contradictory that it is difficult to
penetrate the inner Lee and appreciate him as a general. Peter S.
Carmichael has assembled a formidable array of Civil War historians
who rigorously return to Lee's own words and actions in
interpreting the war in Virginia. This is the first collective
volume to scrutinize specific aspects of the general's military
career. Carmichael's opening contribution confronts Lee's supposed
drive for a victory of annihilation and takes issue with claims
that he was too aggressive. William J. Miller's novel analysis of
Lee's leadership during the pivotal Seven Days battles reconstructs
his strategic thinking and corrects old assumptions. Gordon C. Rhea
overturns the common notion that Lee anticipated his adversaries
with uncanny precision in the Overland campaign of 1864. Robert E.
L. Krick takes aim at the oft-repeated criticism that Lee was not
attuned to the demands of modern warfare because he failed to
surround himself with enough subordinates to ensure the smooth
operation of the army; in fact, Krick argues, Lee continually
fine-tuned the performance of his support staff, striving to
eliminate deficiencies. Finally, Max R. Williams's examination of
the relationship between Lee and North Carolina governor Zebulon B.
Vance, and Mark L. Bradley's portrait of Lee's relationships with
Jefferson Davis and Joseph E. Johnston, offer contrasting views of
the soldier as both politically assertive and reticent,
respectively. Falling easily into neither the pro- nor anti-Lee
camp, Audacity Personified challenges long-standing beliefs
accepted since Douglas Southhall Freeman's influential biography of
Lee was published seventy years ago. These diverse scholarly
visions of the great Confederate general move beyond clichi?1/2,
iluuminating Lee's career with fresh interpretations.
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