Light-Horse Harry blazes across the pages of Ryan Coles narrative like a meteorand his final crash is as destructive. Cole tells his story with care, sympathy, and where necessary, sternness. This book is a great, and sometimes harrowing read. -- Richard Brookhiser * senior editor at National Review and author of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington * Light-Horse Harry blazes across the pages of Ryan Coles narrative like a meteorand his final crash is as destructive. Cole tells his story with care, sympathy, and where necessary, sternness. This book is a great, and sometimes harrowing read. -- Richard Brookhiser * senior editor at National Review and author of Founding Father: Rediscovering George Washington * Lee was a bold and often reckless character whose tragic life ended up tracing the distance between valiant Revolutionary service under George Washington and the depths of bankruptcy, debtors prison, and a painful end. Cole captures it all in admirably lapidary prose, in the process bringing to life the vanished world of the early American republic, a world of both opportunity and peril. -- Wilfred M. McClay * G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, University of Oklahoma * Lee was a bold and often reckless character whose tragic life ended up tracing the distance between valiant Revolutionary service under George Washington and the depths of bankruptcy, debtors prison, and a painful end. Cole captures it all in admirably lapidary prose, in the process bringing to life the vanished world of the early American republic, a world of both opportunity and peril. -- Wilfred M. McClay * G.T. and Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty, University of Oklahoma * This page-turning biography brings Robert E. Lees father vividly back to life. -- Harold Holzer * 2008 winner of the National Humanities Medal and 2015 winner of the Lincoln Prize * This page-turning biography brings Robert E. Lees father vividly back to life. -- Harold Holzer * 2008 winner of the National Humanities Medal and 2015 winner of the Lincoln Prize * Ryan Coles new biography of Henry Leethe daredevil cavalry master of the American Revolution and the father of Robert E. Leeprovides us with a portrait nearly as headlong and fast-paced as Light-Horse Harry himself. -- Allen Guelzo * Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College and author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion * Ryan Coles new biography of Henry Leethe daredevil cavalry master of the American Revolution and the father of Robert E. Leeprovides us with a portrait nearly as headlong and fast-paced as Light-Horse Harry himself. -- Allen Guelzo * Professor of the Civil War Era at Gettysburg College and author of Gettysburg: The Last Invasion *
