The iconoclastic connelly examined the deification of lee and detailed the conscious effort behind this process by lee s fellow virginians.
The marble man thomas lawrence connelly.
The first real crack in the pedestal upon which lee had been placed came in 1977 with the publication of thomas l.
In the marble man a leading civil war military historian examines the hold of lee on the american mind and traces the campaign in historiography that elevated him to national hero status.
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Interested in exposing lee s humanity connelly postulates that the lee and virginia.
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Lee and his image in american society explores the image of lee that writers created during the reconstruction years through the 1961 65 civil war centennial.
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Lee became an american legend only after so many writers portrayed him in that light.
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Connelly provides outstanding historical research and scholarship that provide insight into how lee was transfomed from an outstanding general into a christ like icon of american virtue after the war and his death in 1870.
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Thomas lawrence connelly professor of history at the university of south carolina for many years was the author or coauthor of numerous books on the civil war including autumn of glory.
Lee and his image in american society.
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Thomas lawrence connelly professor of history at the university of south carolina for many years was the author or coauthor of numerous books on the civil war including army of the heartland.
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The politics of command.
Lee since his death in 1870.
Connelly s the marble man attempts to remove the stone veneer that historians have used to cloak robert e.
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Lee and his image in american society.
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Connelly is convinced that robert e.
