The Marble Man Book

The virtuous symbol of lee supplanted any deeper historical or biographical concern.

The marble man book.

Lee and his image in american society 1977. By thomas lawrence connelly the marble man robert e. Lee and his image in american society. A unique study of mythmakers and theft vulnerable subject the confederate general whose army engineer corps background bitter self doubt and family debts ill qualified him for his post bellum stature as symbol of the patrician agricultural view of the old south.

The marble man robert e. The marble man robert e. Lsu press jul 1 1978 history 272 pages. Connelly author 3 0 out of 5 stars 1 rating.

Connelly does not stop there for lee is the paragon of the lost cause theory of the civil war. Lee has attained mythological status in american history and culture. This book traces the making of the myth allowing the reader to follow how lee transformed from a man to a marble man. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions.

But it also suggests a cold di stant inhuman figure of stone. Price new from used from paperback please retry 12 34. The first real crack in the pedestal upon which lee had been placed came in 1977 with the publication of thomas l. Free shipping on qualifying offers.

Lee and his image in american society paperback january 1 1990 by thomas l. Lee and his image in american society by thomas lawrence connelly 1977 03 01. Lee and his image in american society paperback january 1 1740. Connelly believes the lost cause theory is not based upon historical fact but upon a quasi religious interpretation of fact and therefore it is dogmatic in nature.

Lee and his image in american society. Connelly s the marble man. The iconoclastic connelly examined the deification of lee and detailed the conscious effort behind this process by lee s fellow virginians. This is the contradiction that thomas connelly took up in his remarkable book t h e marble man.