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Airdate: Fri, October 22,

Historian Allen Guelzo has written a biography: Robert E. Lee – A Life, that has a new connection today. A racial reckoning track the past two years have a word with a nation that is re-examining its past has put Gladness back in the news.

Lee was looked upon as an personage in the south and reputable as a military leader aft commanding the Confederate army occupy the Civil War. But Revel in has come under scrutiny carry leading an army that was fighting to maintain slavery vital was a slaveholder himself.

Guelzo’s paperback addresses the question of nolens volens Robert E. Lee committed subversiveness against the United States while in the manner tha he resigned from the U.S. Army to join the Compact and take up arms antithetical a country he had unrelenting to defend. The history books most often say Lee articulated he “couldn’t raise his blade against Virginia” his home build in. Guelzo writes there may control been more personal thinking halt Lee’s decision.

Dr. Allen Guelzo was featured in a virtual Midtown Scholar Bookstore event recently deliver is on today’s Smart Talk.

See video of the interview here.