This book is a biography of Robert E。 Lee and delves more into what appears to be the conflict within Lee over secession and slavery。 The book covers a lot of ground already covered in other biographies of Lee， but does spend more time on the apparent conflicts within the man himself over loyalty to the union versus state and slavery versus emancipation。 As an example， he thought slavery inhuman， but kept slaves as an economic necessity to make the farm work。 My take from this book is that Lee w This book is a biography of Robert E。 Lee and delves more into what appears to be the conflict within Lee over secession and slavery。 The book covers a lot of ground already covered in other biographies of Lee， but does spend more time on the apparent conflicts within the man himself over loyalty to the union versus state and slavery versus emancipation。 As an example， he thought slavery inhuman， but kept slaves as an economic necessity to make the farm work。 My take from this book is that Lee was conflicted， but chose to take the path of least resistance in each case。I received a free Kindle copy of this book courtesy of Net Galley and the publisher with the understanding that I would post a review on Net Galley， Goodreads， Amazon and my nonfiction book review blog。 。。。more