MixedLos Angeles Review of Books... an insightful portrait of Lee’s somewhat dysfunctional family ... Guelzo’s assessment of Lee as a military leader is convincing ... Guelzo’s evaluation of Lee’s military performance is more persuasive than his examination of Lee’s attitudes toward the South’s peculiar institution ... But it’s hard to believe that slavery was an \'abstraction\' for Lee ... Lee may have professed a theoretical dislike of slavery on occasion, but his rhetoric frequently did not match his actions ... [a] mostly favorable appraisal of Lee ... I suspect many Americans are unwilling to offer \'mercy\' to Lee, who fought so long and so effectively for a cause described by Ulysses S. Grant as \'one of the worst for which a people ever fought, and one for which there was the least excuse.\'
Jon Meacham
PositiveHistory News NetworkWith the quite real possibility of Trump being impeached in the not-so-distant future, it’s instructive to consider the history of impeachment in this country. As Jeffrey Engel notes, in the new book Impeachment: An American History, \'the time is ripe to renew our understanding of the thing that binds even divided Americans most – our shared past.\' ... Jon Meacham does a fine job discussing the fascinating and highly complex case against Andrew Johnson...and Timothy Naftali’s essay on Nixon reads like a page-turner, even though we know how it all turned out.
