Read Online LightHorse Harry Lee The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero The Tragic Life of Robert E Lee Father Ryan Cole Books

Product details Hardcover 426 pages Publisher Regnery History (January 15, 2019) Language English ISBN-10 1621576973

LightHorse Harry Lee The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero The Tragic Life of Robert E Lee Father Ryan Cole Books Reviews

• THIS IS A GOOD BOOK AND AN EASY READ TO ANYONE WHO IS FAMILIAR WITH LIGHT HORSE HARRY LEE. WOULD GIVE IT 5 STARS BUT I DONT UNDERSTAND THAT THERE IS NO BIBLIOGRAPHY. THE NOTES INDICATE THE SOURCES BUT I SAW NOTHING NEW. ASIDE FROM THE PICTURE ON THE COVER THERE IS NOT EVEN A PHOTO SECTION AT ALL. STICK WITH BEAKES FOR THE TIME IN THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ROYSTER FOR THE TIME AFTER THE WAR. THIS IS A VERY GOOD EXAMPLE OF THE POPULAR HISTORY BEING PUBLISHED TODAY. JAMES MCCORRY
• Delightful short history of Lee. His life is pretty well-covered from his Revolutionary War glory to his later life failings and downfall. A sad ending for one so gifted, but the author does not sugarcoat it. Too often biographers make excuses for their subjects, but not here. A few photos or maps would have been nice. The text describes portraits of Lee, but some photos of the paintings, Stratford Hall, and Lee's Revolutionary War contemporaries would have added to the book. A good read and on an interesting and often by-passed subject.
• I was aware that there had been someone named "light-horse Harry" Lee (Henery Lee III) butvery little information who he was. Even after re-rading a number of Revolutionary War histories! This book rectifies that. Although he didn't rise to the level of inportance of Nathaniel Greene or Henry Knox, he served a vital need. He and those he led were responsible for intelligence gathering, scouting, raids behind enemy lines. He and his men were often had to maintain daily contact with the British while the main body of the Continental Army was out of contact and either moving, resting or training. He joined the war at the age of 20 out of Princeton were he was a studen and remained "deployed" six years until after Yorktown. Although he had some personality characteristics that did him no good (but were not atypical of the Virginia planter class) it appears to me he suffered the rest of his life from what we now call PTSD.
  
  Eventually his own personalty, exacerbated by PTSD, directed his life on a downward tragic course . But even that was not the worst. In 1812 there were were factional riots in Baltimore that nearly took his life and left him a semi invalid. The author's description of this event is psychologically difficult to read. Although it happened two centuries ago I could not read it dispassionately - even writing this review at feel an insense anger at what was done to Lee.
  
  Lee only lived about five more years but during that time was able to wrtie and publish his memoirs of the Revolution which still serves historians a basic source.
  
  The author is obviously skilled. Actually I never thought much about the author while reading the book - but that'[s a compliment because the story of Light-horse Harryis so engaging that the author is forgotten until the final page.
• Light Horse Harry Lee is a meticulously researched biography that has the page-turning intensity of an action thriller. A contemporary of Washington and Jefferson, Lee's life follows the dramatic narrative arc of compelling fiction rise to glory, fall from grace, tragic ending. This book takes you along with him as he journeys from the bloody battlefields of the Revolutionary War to the Halls of Congress of a newly formed nation to his final days as an early American version of a Caribbean beach bum. It's a thrilling ride with a Stranger-Than-Fiction final twist he is the father of one the central figures of the Civil War, General Robert E. Lee. Informative, thought-provoking, and flat-out fun-to-read!
• Light-Horse Harry Lee is a literary masterpiece -- the perfect combination of historic non-fiction and engaging narrative. Thoroughly researched without feeling bogged down in irrelevant detail, Mr. Cole takes the reader through the big and small events in Lee's life -- much of which are intertwined with America's founding.
  
  But Light-Horse Harry Lee is not an academic tome. It is accessible to all readers and a pleasure to read. While describing the truly historic context in which Lee lived, Mr. Cole also manages to tell Lee's deeply personal story.
  
  It is also quite an achievement that Mr. Cole has treated Lee with an equal amount of care and honesty. Lee was a real man; not a myth or a monster, villain or legend, but a flesh and blood man of his time. Successes and failures, strengths and weaknesses -- Lee is brought to life in Mr. Cole's wonderful book.
• This is a great book about the revolutionary war, and one of the young brilliant heros, Harry Lee. He was a leading figure in the early years of the U.S. and the first governor of Virginia. A great guy. But like U.S. Grant, he failed at business and ended up a pauper, estranged from his once-loving family. Gives insight into Robert E. Lee, his son.
• Although I lived close to where Light-Horse Harry Lee was born, there was much about him that I did not know. I learned a lot reading this book about Lee and other patriots who fought England to create America.
• while the character was clearly an interesting figure the write didn't do him justice and the story draggggggeeeddd along and i finally just put it down.