The Lees of Virginia
Seven Generations of an American Family
By
Paul C. Nagel
Oxford University Press
Copyright 1990 by Paul Nagel
ISBN: 0-19-505385-0
A wonderfully written account, and genealogy, of the Lee family of Virginia.
The account begins with the American founder of the Lee family, Richard Lee, who was born in 1618. And it continues through the children of the famed General Robert E. Lee.
The reader is entrusted to facts not otherwise made public about the family before. Both triumph and heartache are shared.
By the end of the book, the reader is sadly smiling and finding there were many hero's within the Lee family, and not merely the famed General.
What's more, it is intriguing to the reader to find a sense of respect and awe, and American pride, that resonates to this very day!
Ties resolutely to several of America's founding father's, the Lees of Virginia are just as much a part of this great nation's history, all the way back to its founding, as any other individual written within our historical texts.
I give The Lees of Virginia my thumbs up award
And I highly recommend it for anyone interested in our nation's history.
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