Title: Don't bother
Product review: This book begins with a 'background' of the slavery issue as the cause of the war. Any historian worth his or her salt knows that slavery was not 'the' issue that lead to secession of the Confederate States. It's a shame they still teach that in high school, but an author writing a book about Lee should know better. It amazes me that the history books omit or diminish the fact that the Emancipation Proclamation did not free slaves in the Union states and that some Union states did not outlaw slavery until AFTER the war.Who can trust the theories proposed by the author if he doesn't have sufficient grasp of the underlying issues?
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