Allen C. Guelzo | Lee: Life and Legend

Allen C. Guelzo is the senior research scholar in the Council of the Humanities and director of the Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship in the James Madison Program at Princeton University. Dr. Guelzo earned his M.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania. In September 2005, he was nominated by President Bush to the National Council on the Humanities. His articles and essays have appeared in numerous publications, including the Wall Street Journal, the Christian Science Monitor, the New York Times, The Atlantic, and the Los Angeles Times. He is the author of several books, including Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President, Lincoln and Douglas: The Debates That Defined America, and Fateful Lightning: A New History of the Civil War and Reconstruction.

Xenophon wrote that a successful general “must be resourceful, active, careful, hardy, and quick-witted; he must be both gentle and brutal, at once straightforward and designing, capable of both caution and surprise, lavish and rapacious, generous and mean, skillful in defense and attack.” This third CCA of the 2019-2020 academic year will consider the lives and characters of some of America’s greatest generals.