Guelzo on Robert E. Lee: “To Err on the Side of Absorbing Society’s Defaulters”
Allen C. Guelzo, Robert E. Lee: A Life (New York: Knopf, 2021), 608 pages, illus., $35, Kindle $15.99. First published in The American Spectator, 9 November 2021. Please consider subscribing (if you don’t already), to this ad-free website. You will receive regular notices of new articles as published. Just fill in your email in the right-hand panel under “subscribe & follow.” Your email address is given to no one and remains a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma.
“Who’s that man on the horse?”……I asked my father at a young age. “That’s Lee—he led a Southern army in the Civil War.”…
