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Article: Douglas Southall Freeman.(Book Review)
- Article from:
- The Journal of Southern History
- Article date:
- November 1, 2003
- Author:
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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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Article: Berkeley mourns homeless 'genius' Kevin Lee Freeman ...
Oakland Tribune;
May 26, 2003 ;
700+ words
... ... about 25 years. Yet Kevin Lee Freeman meant something to a lot ... familiar occurrence for Freeman -- he was placed in a ... with 20-year-old Ryan Lee Raper of Copperopolis ... has been charged with Freeman's murder, and the jail ...
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