This book in the genre of United States History - 19th Century - Civil War, a little about the book Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee - In Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee, Michael Korda, the New York Times bestselling biographer of Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ulysses S. Grant, and T. E. Lawrence, has written the first major biography of Lee in nearly twenty years, bringing to life America's greatest and most iconic hero. Korda paints a vivid and admiring portrait of Lee as a general and devoted family man who, though he disliked slavery and was not in favor of secession, turned down command of the Union army in 1861 because he ...