Duty Faithfully Performed

Download or read book Duty Faithfully Performed written by John M. Taylor and published by Potomac Books. This book was released on 2000 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Confederate Civil War general Robert E. Lee has not received favorable press in recent 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 these 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. Book jacket.