Although the Civil War was the bitterest epoch of American experience--dividing families, sundering communities, and enforcing fierce regional enmity--Robert E. Lee was admired and respected by partisans from both sides. Call of Duty examines the attributes of the life and service that enabled Lee to transcend the passions of the moment to become a model of leadership for all time.
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This review is from: Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee (Leaders in Action) (Hardcover)
"Slavery, as it operated in the pervasively Christian society which was the old South, was not an adversarial relationship founded upon racial animosity. In fact, it bred on the whole, not contempt, but, over time, mutual respect. This produced a mutual esteem of the sort that always results when men give themselves to a common cause. The credit for this startling reality must go to the Christian faith. . . The unity and companionship that existed between the races in the South prior to the war was the fruit of a common faith."
Oh really? "United and companionship". That Robert E. Lee was a great man and general is not in dispute. Suggesting that a whole race of people kept in chains as subhuman, not to mention the next 100+ years of opression after the Civil War, were happy slaves who respected their masters because they shared Christianity is appalling. Simple appalling. There are many great books on Robert E. Lee that deserve reading. This man's trash does not.
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On Michelle Bachman's must read list--scary stuff,
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This review is from: Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee (Leaders in Action) (Hardcover)
This book is a distorted view of the causes of the Civil War, masked as a biography of one of its greatest generals, Robert E. Lee. According to Wilkins, the South was Christian, the North was not, and the war's purpose was the "subjugation" and destruction of Southern beliefs. The passages regarding slavery are particularly abhorrent, such as:"it was (and is) easily demonstrable, that, taken as a whole, there is no question that blacks in this country, slavery notwithstanding, were 'immeasurably better off' in every way." (p. 299) And this one from the same page: "Time was needed for the sanctifying effects of Christianity to work in the black race and fit its people for freedom."
This book is used in many home schooling curricula, and was recommended for a long time on Michelle Bachman's website as a must read. How a candidate for the highest office in the nation could accept such an ahistorical account of one of the greatest tragedies in our nation is truly frightening.
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This review is from: Call of Duty: The Sterling Nobility of Robert E. Lee (Leaders in Action) (Hardcover)
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"Slavery, as it operated in the pervasively Christian society which was the old South, was not an adversarial relationship founded upon racial animosity. In fact, it bred on the whole, not contempt, but, over time, mutual respect. This produced a mutual esteem of the sort that always results when men give themselves to a common cause. The credit for this startling reality must go to the Christian faith. . . . The unity and companionship that existed between the races in the South prior to the war was the fruit of a common faith." That alone is a reason not to purchase this book, not to read it. It is a denial of one of the great sins of American history. The writer of this work is, morally, the American equivalent of a Holocaust denier. A nation does not become or remain great by denying its historical sins - it remains great by remembering them, and rooting out their remnants. It remains great by overcoming them. The writer of this work is not a patriot - he is a charlatan, a traitor to American greatness. He and his supporters deserve neither your money nor your time, only your scorn.
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After completing his magisterial four-volume biography of Lee, on which he labored for more than ten years, the great Southern author Douglas Southall Freeman stated:" I have been fully repaid by being privileged to live, as it were, for more than a decade in the company of a great gentleman." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Lee, United States, Washington College, West Point, General Scott, Army of Northern Virginia, President Davis, Henry Lee, New York, General Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert Lee, George Washington, Mexican War, William Jones, General Winfield Scott, Harper's Ferry, John Brown, President Lincoln, Cemetery Hill, Cumberland Island, Mary Lee, South Carolina, General Washington, Marse Robert New!
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After completing his magisterial four-volume biography of Lee, on which he labored for more than ten years, the great Southern author Douglas Southall Freeman stated:" I have been fully repaid by being privileged to live, as it were, for more than a decade in the company of a great gentleman." Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
General Lee, United States, Washington College, West Point, General Scott, Army of Northern Virginia, President Davis, Henry Lee, New York, General Grant, Jefferson Davis, Robert Lee, George Washington, Mexican War, William Jones, General Winfield Scott, Harper's Ferry, John Brown, President Lincoln, Cemetery Hill, Cumberland Island, Mary Lee, South Carolina, General Washington, Marse Robert New!
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- Douglas Southall Freeman on Leadership (Great Historians of the Civil War) by Douglas Southall Freeman in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- San Antonio (A Downtown America Book) by Sally Lee on page 5, page 59, and page 206
- Battle Cry of Freedom by James M McPherson in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Christ in the Camp by J. William Jones in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Recollections and Letters (Barnes & Noble Library of Essential Reading) by Robert Lee in Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
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- Then Darkness Fled: The Liberating Wisdom of Booker T. Washington (Leaders in Action) by Stephen Mansfield in Front Matter
- More Than Dates and Dead People: Recovering a Christian View of History by Stephen Mansfield on page 105
- Pillars of Leadership (Leaders in Action) by David J Vaughan in Back Matter
- Elijah: A Man of Heroism and Humility (Great Lives From God's Word 5: Profiles in Character from Charles R. Swindoll) by Charles R. Swindoll in Back Matter
- Forgotten Founding Father: The Heroic Legacy of George Whitefield (Leaders in Action) by Stephen Mansfield in Front Matter
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