Clouds of Glory

The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee

By: Michael Korda

Narrated by: Jack Garrett

New York Times Bestseller

""Lively, approachable, and captivating. Like Lee himself, everything about Clouds of Glory is on a grand scale."" —Boston Globe

Michael Korda, the acclaimed biographer of Ulysses S. Grant and the bestsellers Ike and Hero, offers a brilliant, balanced, single-volume biography of Robert E. Lee, the first major study in a generation

Korda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and a devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of secession, turned down command of the Union army in 1861 because he could not ""draw his sword"" against his own children, his neighbors, and his beloved Virginia. He was surely America's preeminent military leader, as calm, dignified, and commanding a presence in defeat as he was in victory. Lee's reputation has only grown in the 150 years since the Civil War, and Korda covers in groundbreaking detail all of Lee's battles and traces the making of a great man's undeniable reputation on both sides of the Mason-Dixon Line, positioning him finally as the symbolic martyr-hero of the Southern Cause.

Clouds of Glory features dozens of stunning illustrations, some never before seen, including eight pages of color images, sixteen pages of black-and-white images, and nearly fifty battle maps.

GREAT… except for

No translation into English of any of the foreign language phrases that were scattered throughout the book

Nice to meet you Mr R.E. Lee

Very good well written and read great detail and it makes you feel you are there.

good book

wish it would have been more in depth about the war year's, great read all together.

excellent

I did not know much about Lee, the man, and is the reason I listened to this biography. I found it very enlightening and highly recommend it to anyone who has a desire to understand the Confederate Virginian's perspective on the Civil War.

Admiration without adulation…

A fair and frank appraisal of a great American. This is certainly not my first biography on Lee. Nor, in candor, is it my favorite. But it is excellent, more or less free of maudlin sentimentality, and yet courageous enough to extoll the character and genius of a truly remarkable man. I think it should be required reading for every student of the Civil War… Rather than the revisionist trash that only wishes to denigrate those champions of honor and duty epitomized by Lee.