...is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar
and Director of the James Madison Program’s Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship at Princeton University
Coming in February 2024…
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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
The Washington Post’s George F. Will comments:
“Princeton’s Allen C. Guelzo, an eminent Civil War historian, has now published exactly what the nation needs as it reappraises important historical figures who lived in challenging times with assumptions radically unlike today’s. “Robert E. Lee: A Life,” Guelzo’s scrupulously measured assessment, is mercifully free of the grandstanding by which many moralists nowadays celebrate themselves by indignantly deploring the shortcomings of those whose behavior offends current sensibilities. But by casting a cool eye on Lee, Guelzo allows facts to validate today’s removals of Lee’s name and statues from public buildings and places.”