Article: LEE MADE MORTAL AGAIN IN NEW BIOGRAPHY.(LIFE & LEISURE)

Byline: ROBERT V. REMINI

Americans are a strange breed. They go to war and frequently compensate their defeated enemies with indemnities or financial aid, sometimes to their regret later on. And they revere the most unlikely people: film stars who can't act; singers with no voice and who know little about music; writers who have nothing to say. Worse, their heroes can include misfits, Wild West personalities, outlaws, even rebels.

Take Gen. Robert E. Lee, for example. Here is a man of limited vision who believed that secession was unconstitutional but said that he could not war against his own country and its people. And he meant Virginia, not ...

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