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Lee in the shadow of Washington by Richard B. McCaslin Illuminating insight into the life of America’s second Washington, kindred spirits in the American revolutionary tradition, by Richard McCaslin. ( )

Ms. Cook animates her characters with a rare authenticity regarding the inhabitants of the south. Her character “lil Alex” observed after the war near the end of the book, “Honor was forgotten in the pursuit of great wealth. Politicians were bought and sold.”