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Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause by Ty Seidule
5.0
A book written by a man willing to say “Mea Culpa” about his previous support of a white supremacist folk hero. It was refreshing to read a book by a career Army officer and academic that describes their journey to a different opinion from their early days. I wasn’t even raised in the South but was still indoctrinated into believing elements of the Lost Cause myth.
In my freshman year of college a friend took me home to Georgia for a weekend. She proudly showed me her family’s literal shrine to Lee in their living room. While I still believed in the “state’s rights” myth about the War of the Rebellion I was very uncomfortable with the canonizing of Lee into some kind of southern religion. I now understand why.
Seidule’s book sheds light on an issue that shouldn’t still be causing problems but yet it is. That issue is the south’s obsession with the Lost Cause. I will be having my teen read this book along with her American History textbooks next school year.
If you see this, Dr. Seidule, thank you for your book.
In my freshman year of college a friend took me home to Georgia for a weekend. She proudly showed me her family’s literal shrine to Lee in their living room. While I still believed in the “state’s rights” myth about the War of the Rebellion I was very uncomfortable with the canonizing of Lee into some kind of southern religion. I now understand why.
Seidule’s book sheds light on an issue that shouldn’t still be causing problems but yet it is. That issue is the south’s obsession with the Lost Cause. I will be having my teen read this book along with her American History textbooks next school year.
If you see this, Dr. Seidule, thank you for your book.