· Lee: The Last Years. Charles Bracelen Flood. HMH, Sep 2, - Biography Autobiography - pages. 4 Reviews. A New York Times bestselling author’s revealing account of General Robert E. Lee’s 4/5(4). · Next Flood turned to the war that disrupted the Union. Lee – The Last Years was a revelatory look at how Robert E. Lee reacted to the South’s defeat. It won the Colonial Dames of America Annual Book Award. Lee was followed by Grant and Sherman –the Friendship that Won the Civil War. · “In rural and struggling Lexington, Virginia, Lee's new postwar home, one writer joked darkly dollars were so scarce that they had to be introduced to one another when they met on Main Street.” ― Charles Bracelen Flood, Lee The Last Years/5.
Lee: The Last Years by Charles Bracelen Flood is a fascinating -- sometimes endearing, at other times profoundly sorrowful -- account of the last five years of Robert E. Lee's life. Most of the book is occupied with Lee's stint as President of Washington College in Lexington, VA () -- now renamed as Washington and Lee University in. By , when Colonel Robert E. Lee was commander of all United States Army forces in the Department of Texas, Grant had in six civilian years failed as a farmer and as a real estate salesman, and was a clerk in his father's harness and leather-goods shop in Galena, Illinois. Lee: The Last Years sheds a vital new light on war, politics, hero-worship, human rights, More Books by Charles Bracelen Flood. Grant's Final Victory. First to Fly. Grant and Sherman. Lee. More ways to shop: Find an Apple Store or other retailer near you.
A New York Times bestselling author’s revealing account of General Robert E. Lee’s life after Appomattox: “An American classic" (Atlanta Journal-Constitution). After his surrender at Appomattox in , Robert E. Lee, commanding general for the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia during the Civil War, lived only five more years. Lee: The Last Years sheds a vital new light on war, politics, hero-worship, More Books by Charles Bracelen Flood. Grant's Final Victory. First to Fly. Charles Bracelen Flood was a past president of the American Center of PEN, the international writers’ organization, and served on the governing bodies of the Authors League and Authors Guild. He lived with his wife Katherine Burnam Flood in Richmond, Kentucky, in that state’s Bluegrass region. To request a review copy of.
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