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This book really resonated with me. Seidule is a retired Army brigadier general, former head of history at the U.S. Military Academy, and the first professor emeritus of history at West Point. Growing up in Virginia, he idolized Lee and had to learn the hard way about the myth behind the man and the cause he fought for. I, too, grew up thinking Lee wasn't all that bad and that he only fought for the Confederacy because he felt a duty to his state. I figured out the Lee was not the mythical, mostly good guy torn by loyalties by adulthood, but I didn't realize just how pro-slavery he actually was until Seidule put Lee's own words in print. This book is so important and beautifully written by a man who has had to come to terms that his hero was actually a monster. An important book at any time but especially now.