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Article: Lee Considered: General Robert E. Lee and Civil War History.
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- National Review
- Article date:
- October 21, 1991
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ROBERT E. LEE has been perhaps America's premier secular icon, with an "heroic, almost superhuman, national stature," writes Alan Nolan. Indeed, the "Mythic Lee," as Nolan puts it, has been largely immune from the normal questioning of historians. Which led Nolan, an Indianapolis attorney, to write Lee Considered. Getting people to reconsider their idols is a painful process, and Nolan assures his readers that he considers Lee a great man worthy of respect. But that will offer scant comfort to the Lee admirer as Nolan wields his sledgehammer against "the marble man."
The fundamental problem with Lee Considered is that it reads like a legal brief. Nolan ...
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