Robert E. Lee, Part 1 Story aired: Wednesday, August 06, 2003
Robert E. Lee is a name that summons different images, depending on what part of the country you grew up in: a hero in the south, a symbol of slavery in the north.
General Lee was considerably more complicated. He was Abraham Lincoln's first choice to lead the Union troops, but Lee's devotion to his native state Virginia caused him to side, somewhat reluctantly, with the Confederacy.
That internal conflict is one reason why southern writer and humorist Roy Blount, Jr. decided to turn his attention from writing about Mark Twain to writing about another American icon. His new biography is called "Robert E. Lee."
Guests:
Roy Blount, Jr., author and humorist.
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