> > Historian and retired brigadier general Ty Seidule issues a full-throated > indictment of the “Lost Cause” and dethrones the Confederate general. > > > https://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2021/0125/Robert-E.-Lee-and-Me-dismantles-Confederate-mythology > > He aspired to be a “Virginian gentleman” throughout most of his life and > career – but along the way, Ty Seidule began to question the tenets of his > culture and his idols, namely Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and the “Lost > Cause” myth. Seidule, a retired brigadier general in the U.S. Army and > professor emeritus of history at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point in > New York, journeyed from cockeyed ignorance to ever-increasing cognitive > dissonance to finally horror at his white supremacist origins. His new > book, “Robert E. Lee and Me: A Southerner’s Reckoning with the Myth of the > Lost Cause,” offers hope that those who attempt to set the record straight > about racism in the United States will indeed be listened to and believed. > > “History is dangerous. It forms our identity, our shared story. If someone > challenges a sacred myth, the reaction can be ferocious,” so writes > Seidule, who adds that he has received death threats and was forced to > retire from the Army after 36 years because of the book he’s written. > Despite its very personal pathos, the book does not simply knock his > boyhood idol off the pedestal; rather, it gives an uncompromising, searing, > and full-throated indictment of a historically misrepresented man and myth, > along with the many institutions that have given currency to all of it > through the years. > > >
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