Bachsy, for a number of years, highly recommended: Robert E. Lee biography by J. Steven Wilkins
Lucy, this needs some 'splainin':
"[Author ]Wilkins has combined a Christian conservatism with neo-confederate views and developed what is known as the theological war thesis. This is an idea that says the best way to understand the Civil War is to see it in religious terms, and [that] the South was an Orthodox Christian nation attacked by the godless North and that what was really lost after the Civil War was one of the pinnacles of Christian society. This insane view of the Civil War has been successfully injected into some of the Christian home-schooling movement curriculums with the help of [Wilkins]. My guess is this is how she encountered the guy at some point. ... She recommended this book on her website for a number of years. It is an objectively pro-slavery book and one of the most startling things I learned about her in this piece." -- Ryan Lizza, New Yorker Magazine
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/09/139084313/the-books-and-beliefs-shaping-michele-bachmann
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