The Marble Man Book

Lee and his image in american society paperback january 1 1740.

The marble man book.

Free shipping on qualifying offers. Connelly author 3 0 out of 5 stars 1 rating. The marble man robert e. The virtuous symbol of lee supplanted any deeper historical or biographical concern.

Lee and his image in american society. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions. Connelly s the marble man. Connelly does not stop there for lee is the paragon of the lost cause theory of the civil war.

Lsu press jul 1 1978 history 272 pages. Free shipping on qualifying offers. Price new from used from paperback please retry 12 34. The iconoclastic connelly examined the deification of lee and detailed the conscious effort behind this process by lee s fellow virginians.

By thomas lawrence connelly the marble man robert e. The first real crack in the pedestal upon which lee had been placed came in 1977 with the publication of thomas l. A unique study of mythmakers and theft vulnerable subject the confederate general whose army engineer corps background bitter self doubt and family debts ill qualified him for his post bellum stature as symbol of the patrician agricultural view of the old south. Lee and his image in american society paperback january 1 1990 by thomas l.

The marble man carries on the re analysis of lee s generalship implicit in fuller s work and goes beyond that to analyze lee as a person. Lee was both a military genius and a spiritual leader considered by many southerners and nonsoutherners alike to have been a near. Lee and his image in american society. Lee has attained mythological status in american history and culture.

Lee and his image in american society 1977. The marble man robert e. This book traces the making of the myth allowing the reader to follow how lee transformed from a man to a marble man. This is the contradiction that thomas connelly took up in his remarkable book t h e marble man.