America's greatest biographer: Douglas Southall Freeman.(Book Review)

Contemporary Review | April 1, 2003| | Copyright

IT IS now a half century since the death of Douglas Southall Freeman who was acclaimed by his fellow historian, Allan Nevins, as 'America's greatest biographer'. Freeman's monumental biographies, R. E. Lee (four volumes, 1934-35) and George Washington (seven volumes, 1948-57) both won the Pulitzer Prize and both remain steady sellers as well as the standard scholarly biographies.

Now Dr Freeman has garnered his just deserts: he himself is the subject of an exemplary biography, David Johnson's Douglas Southall Freeman (Pelican Publishing Co., Gretna, Louisiana, ...

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