Making Sense of Robert E. Lee
In a new biography, Robert E. Lee, Roy Blount, Jr., treats Lee as a man of competing impulses, a “paragon of manliness” and “one of the greatest military commanders in history,” who was nonetheless “not good at telling men what to do.”
Blount, Jr., Roy. “Making Sense of Robert E. Lee.” Smithsonian, July 2003, www.smithsonianmag.com/history/making-sense-of-robert-e-lee-85017563/.