A review by jenmangler
Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule

4.0

Powerful. Seidule wrestles with the racism that influenced how he grew up and how he saw the world as he works to understand the role Robert E. Lee played in this country's past and how this country refuses to honestly confront that. As he writes towards the end of the book: "We do have a responsibility to acknowledge the past, to acknowledge the facts. The past does not have to control us, especially if we understand it." I learned a lot and and I thought a lot reading this.