Chronicles the life of Robert E. Lee, providing information on both his personal and public life.

Chapter 1. Patrimony recaptured -- Chapter 2. Marriage, eros, and self -- Chapter 3. Fatherhood and salvation -- Chapter 4. Race and slavery -- Chapter 5. Politics and secession -- Chapter 6. The trials of war -- Chapter 7. Audacity -- Chapter 8. Defeat at Gettysburg -- Chapter 9. To the lost cause -- Chapter 10. The war he refused -- Chapter 11. Cincinnatus -- Chapter 12. Barbarians in the garden -- Chapter 13. Southern nationalist.