Clouds of Glory : The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

from branjohb

I am not a Civil War buff, but enjoyed the book. I knew very little about Robert E. Lee before reading this book and now substantially more about him. For a true Civil War buff, this has got to be the book to own. Great inside information on the key battles and strategies. Two thumbs up.

from hardlyhardy

The United States has a few secular saints, and some of them (Abraham Lincoln, John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King) died at the hands of an assassin. Not so Robert E. Lee, who lived a full life. He is revered today as much in northern states as southern states, despite the fact that Lee, after...

from Urquhart

The recently released Michael Korda Clouds of Glory-the Life and Legend of R.E. Lee is a long, laborious, plodding account of his life. Did I mention it is also slow? While there is mostly the same old material that most of us are used to, Korda has also quietly and almost inconspicuously managed...

from msaucier818

Although I have read a great many books about the Civil War, this is the first I have read that dealt primarily with Robert E. Lee. I enjoyed this book, but I did not necessarily love it. The author has a flowing writing style that makes it easy to keep turning pages, and he does a fair job of gi...

from lanewillson

Newtonian in its expression, there is one dynamic of the human condition that remains constant, which is to say, there is no inoculation against a man from violating the principles he holds as the foundation of nobility. Two inescapable facts deny Robert E. Lee, considered a genuinely spiritual m...