Robert E. Lee and the Pursuit of Perfection with Dr. Allen Guelzo

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Robert E. Lee was often characterized as remote and not given to self-revelation. But that was part of a lifetime pattern, cast by the long shadow of his father Light-Horse Harry Lee in which Lee was driven to pursue perfection, independence and security. Only as President of Washington College did he bring these pursuits into harmony.
Join Dr. Allen Guelzo, Senior Research Scholar in the Council of the Humanities at Princeton University and Director, James Madison Program’s Initiative in Politics & Statesmanship, as he gives this lecture. Guelzo is the author of “Robert E. Lee: A Life” published in 2021.

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15 янв 2023

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Комментарии : 6

@GK-tw8pu 11 месяцев назад

Dr. Guelzo is an American treasure. Since Dr Guelzo likes sports analogies… he’s like the ‘85 bears of modern day civil war historians. Gallagher and McPherson are the Steelers and the Patriots 🤣

@fatfeline1086 Год назад

Presentation is good, reading the book is even better, but this is worth a watch for the excellent excellent Q and A

@davete2683 Год назад

Genius

@urdude67 10 месяцев назад

I fear rule by the majority an a strong federal government. It’s a rational position to take now, let alone in Virginia in 1866.

@arkie_bear Месяц назад

Good presentation. Despite a keen intellect, and a command of facts, Mr Guelzo seems incapable of truly understanding the mindset of a man like Lee, and of the Confederates, generally. This is no indictment of Mr. Guelzo, just an observation of not only him, but of almost all unionist-minded historians. We all have our shortcomings where understanding people and history are concerned.

@johnschuh8616 3 дня назад

As to Lee’s racism, it was no worse than Charles Darwin’s. And it has been reported that when General Grant, own his world tour, was consulted by the Emperor of Japan, who was managed in a rapid modernization of his Empire, he expressed doubts about democracy, Leading the Emperor to prefer something more like that British system.