The Marble Man Thomas Lawrence Connelly

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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Showing all works by author. Lee and his image in american society. Lee and his image in american society. 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 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. Worldcat home about worldcat help. Lee and his image in american society.

The army of tennessee 1862 1865. Thomas connelly writes a seminal work on the deification of confederate general robert e. 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. Thomas lawrence connelly by thomas lawrence connelly the marble man robert e.

Connelly is convinced that robert e. Lee and his image in american society. Most editions first published most recent. Factions and ideas in confederate strategy.

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Download for print disabled. 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. Thomas lawrence connelly 1938 1991 11 works add another. Factions and ideas in confederate strategy.

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First published in 1977 2 editions 2 previewable borrow listen. The army of tennessee 1861 1862. Lee became an american legend only after so many writers portrayed him in that light. 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.

The first real crack in the pedestal upon which lee had been placed came in 1977 with the publication of thomas l. Connelly in the marble man. Connelly s the marble man attempts to remove the stone veneer that historians have used to cloak robert e.