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Clouds of Glory

The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

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Clouds of Glory

By: Michael Korda
Narrated by: Jack Garrett
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In Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee, Michael Korda, the New York Times best-selling biographer of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, and T. E. Lawrence, has written the first major biography of Lee in nearly 20 years, bringing to life America's greatest and most iconic hero. Korda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and a devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of secession, turned down command of the Union army in 1861 because he could not "draw his sword" against his own children, his neighbors, and his beloved Virginia. He was surely America's preeminent military leader, as calm, dignified, and commanding a presence in defeat as he was in victory. Lee's reputation has only grown in the 150 years since the Civil War, and Korda covers in groundbreaking detail all of Lee's battles and traces the making of a great man's undeniable reputation on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, positioning him finally as the symbolic martyr-hero of the Southern Cause.

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This is an excellent history of Robert E Lee, this book deals with his adult life, from Mexico to his surrender at appamatox court house. Recommended!

Robert E Lee - A Life

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one of my favourites. brilliantly researched and written. Highly recommended!

well balanced in approach, and showing many sides to Robert E. Lee.

I was reasonably familiar with his Civil War exploits, but I didn't know anything about his youth, early career, or his fantastic achievements in the Mexican War, which were well covered

I will listen to this again!

one of my favourites. brilliantly researched

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What a fantastic General. If he didn’t fight for The Confederacy the war would have been over in 18 months.

Fantastic Life Story

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A very well researched biography, and very fittingly written to the great, yet humble man, I feel Robert E.Lee would approve.

A fitting biography to the great, yet humble man

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A masterful and sympathetic summary of Lee's life. in which were combined military greatness and genuine Christian piety. Possibly no other military leader in history has received the acclaim by the side that defeated him as Lee did, and this in a civil war, the most brutal of all wars. The reading is excellent preventing the extended descriptions of the military campaigns from becoming tedious.

Deservedly a hero

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Really enjoyed listening to this audio book and educating myself about the great man. Very inspiring,

Inspiring man

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I dislike the way that the author keeps telling me what I should be thinking of Robert E Lee. The author seems to think that he has to project his opinion onto every action. Douglas Southall Freeman does not make that assumption of our stupidity and allows us to think for ourselves.

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An interesting early life which is lacking from other commentaries I've read or heard. BUT!
Written in the sycophantic style; if only Lee and Jackson could have cloned themselves and populated the army with their offspring, the south would have won comfortably.
I have no doubt he was a noble and thoughtful man, husband, father and general. But the narrative of the war puts the blame on everybody else but him, exalts him to angelic status and portrays the others as incompetent martinets or trouble makers.
I gave up about a third of the way through, just couldn't stand the patronising narrative and narration any longer.
Some will like it.
😒Mick the Hick

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