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Freeman was 29 with a Ph.D. in history when New York Publisher Charles Scribner asked him to do a one-volume biography of General Lee. Freeman delivered it to Scribner's son 19 years later (January 1934*) in four volumes. At that, he got it done only by putting himself on his present rigorous timetable in 1926. Said Scribner: "This is a formidable job. We will have to sell 4,000 sets to break even." Freeman's reply: "I'm cheatin' you, man!" To date Scribner's has sold 35,000 sets of Lee...
...Lee won Freeman the Pulitzer Prize for biography in 1934. Lee's Lieutenants, which followed, was an even more impressive achievement, and a complex study of Lee's command problem highlighted by brief, brilliant biographies of his commanders-Jackson, Stuart, Early and Longstreet...
Washington & Lee. Readers of the near-reverent R. E. Lee will learn with surprise that Freeman found Washington "a more interesting young man to study" than Lee...
...Washington has not replaced Lee in my affection, but he has rivaled him in my respect," said Dr. Freeman last week. "After you have spent 20 years in the company of a great man [Lee] you get ideas of what an historical personage ought to be, and you can't keep the company of ordinary men after that...
...Freeman purposely finished it on Lee's birthday...