FREEMAN, Douglas Southall.
R.E. Lee: A Biography.
New York: Charles Scribner's Sons , 1934-1951.
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First Editions of the First Two Volumes in Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer Prize-Winning Biography; Inscribed by Him
First editions of the first two volumes of Douglas Southall Freeman's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Robert E. Lee. Octavo, four volumes, original publisher's cloth, top stain red to volumes 3 and 4, illustrated. A mixed set, the first two volumes are first printings from 1934 with "A" on copyright page, while volumes 3 & 4 are early printings from 1951. Signed by the author on the front free endpaper of volume one, "Inscribed for J.M. Trainer Douglas Southall Freeman." In very good condition with sunning to the spines. Ownership signatures to the first two volumes. Housed in pictorial board slipcase in good condition.
American historian, biographer and author Douglas Southall Freeman is best known for his multi-volume biographies of Robert E. Lee and George Washington, for which he was awarded two Pulitzer Prizes. Published in four volumes between 1934 and 1945, R. E. Lee: A Biography was met with high praise. The New York Times declared it "Lee complete for all time." Historian Dumas Malone wrote, "Great as my personal expectations were, the realization far surpassed them." The book also established the Virginia School of Civil War scholarship, an approach to writing Civil War history that concentrated on the Eastern Theater of the war, focused the narrative on generals over the common soldier, centered the analysis on military campaigns over social and political events, and treated his Confederate subjects with sympathy.
R.E. Lee: A Biography.
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