As the United States commemorates the sesquicentennial of the Civil War, historians have had an opportunity to revisit the legacy and lives of America’s most significant leaders and their roles in shaping American history, North and South, East and West, in the 19th century and beyond. Former editor in chief of Simon & Schuster Michael Korda’s latest biography Clouds of Glory: the Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee (HarperCollins, $40) is a seminal, reexamination of the American hero, a


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