Winner of the Lincoln Prize
Pryor has taken an icon and given us the soul of a complex man and his turbulent age and has delivered it wrapped in lithe and graceful prose that many novelists might envy. She has, in short, written a masterpiece. –Fergus Bordewich, The Wall Street Journal
[A] work of prodigious scholarship and accomplished style, which challenges many of our deep-seated assumptions about Robert E. Lee–. Times Literary Supplement
Elizabeth Pryor delivers an unorthodox, critical, and engaging biography of Lee. She impressively captures Lee’s character and personality. Pryor writes with a sure hand, informed by strong research. —The Boston Globe