"Light-Horse Harry blazes across the pages of Ryan Cole's narrative like a meteor—and his final crash is as destructive. Cole tells his story with care, sympathy, and where necessary, sternness. This book is a great, and sometimes harrowing read." —Richard Brookhiser, senior editor at National Review and author of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington Who was "Light-Horse Harry" Lee?Gallant Revolutionary War hero. Quintessential Virginia cavalryman. George Washington's trusted subordinate andimmortal eulogist. Robert E. Lee's beloved father.Founding father who shepherded the Constitution through the Virginia Ratifying Convention.But Light-Horse Harry Lee was also a conman. A beachcomber. Imprisoned for debt. Caught up in sordid squabbles over squalid land deals. Maimed for life by an angry political mob.Light-Horse Harry Lee's life was tragic, glorious, and dramatic, but perhaps because of its sad, ignominious conclusion historians have rarely given him his due—until now.Now historian Ryan Cole presents this soldier and statesman of the founding generation with all the vim and vigor thattypified Lee himself. Scouring hundreds of contemporary documents and reading his way into Lee's life, political philosophy, and character, Cole gives us the most intimate picture to date of this greatly awed but hugely talented man whose influence has reverberated from the founding of the United States to the present day.
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Light-Horse Harry Lee
The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero - The Tragic Life of Robert E. Lee's Father
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Light-Horse Harry Lee
The Rise and Fall of a Revolutionary Hero - The Tragic Life of Robert E. Lee's Father
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Dedication
- Prologue
- Chapter 1: Freestone Point
- Chapter 2: All Sons of Liberty
- Chapter 3: This Struggle for the Rights of Mankind
- Chapter 4: A Rebel Captain by the Name of Lee
- Chapter 5: A Most Gallant Affair
- Chapter 6: Gold Seven Times Tried in the Fire
- Chapter 7: The Great Game
- Chapter 8: A Fatal Stab to the British Tyrant
- Chapter 9: You Cannot Cease to Be a Soldier
- Chapter 10: One People
- Chapter 11: Indifferent Destiny
- Chapter 12: Pointing the Bayonet against the Hearts of Our Countrymen
- Chapter 13: Cracked
- Chapter 14: Farewell Great and Noble Patriots
- Chapter 15: Unceasing Woe
- Chapter 16: When Future Generations Shall Inquire
- Chapter 17: The Sad Catastrophe of Baltimore
- Chapter 18: My Miserable Exile
- Epilogue
- Acknowledgments
- About the Author
- Notes
- Index
- Copyright
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