Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner's Reckoning with the Myth of the Lost Cause

"As people protest, counterprotest and counter-counterprotest the removal of Confederate statues in Virginia and other Southern states, and argue over the relevance of a 156-year-old war, Ty Seidule’s book provides an important and engaging history lesson. Seidule cuts down myths about the Confederacy and about Robert E. Lee, and makes it clear to anyone who doubts that their cause was deeply racist and wrong. The fact that this book is written by a Southerner, an Army veteran and a onetime Lee acolyte – a story Seidule weaves through the book, too – makes it all the more powerful."