Article: Douglas Southall Freeman.(Book Review)

By David E. Johnson. (Gretna, La.: Pelican Publishing Company, 2002. Pp. 476. $27.50. ISBN 1-58980-021-4.)

Writing the biography of a master biographer is a daunting task. David E. Johnson succeeds. Douglas Southall Freeman, the author of magisterial studies of Robert E. Lee and George Washington, still ranks among America's finest life-writers. But Freeman was so much more that he seems to bulk beyond one person's possibility. Vocal on vital public and political issues, he was an influential newspaper editor, a fearsome manager of his research and writing time, a loving husband, a doting--sometimes puzzled--father, a magnetic guide to Civil War battlegrounds, ...

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