The Atlantic Bookshelf: A Guide to Good Books

HISTORIAN and biographer, and the recipient of Pulitzer Prizes in each of these fields, Burton J. Hendrick is singularly qualified to write about the most distinguished family of the South. ‘The family of Lee has more men of merit in it than any other family,’ wrote John Adams in 1779. To follow these patricians and their wives through two centuries (16401861) is to gain a fresh understanding of American history.