Allen C. Guelzo

...is the Thomas W. Smith Distinguished Research Scholar

and Director of the James Madison Program’s Initiative on Politics and Statesmanship at Princeton University

Coming in February 2024…

Available for preorder HERE

A WALL STREET JOURNAL BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR

The Washington Post’s George F. Will comments:

“Princeton’s Allen C. Guelzo, an eminent Civil War historian, has now published exactly what the nation needs as it reappraises important historical figures who lived in challenging times with assumptions radically unlike today’s. “Robert E. Lee: A Life,” Guelzo’s scrupulously measured assessment, is mercifully free of the grandstanding by which many moralists nowadays celebrate themselves by indignantly deploring the shortcomings of those whose behavior offends current sensibilities. But by casting a cool eye on Lee, Guelzo allows facts to validate today’s removals of Lee’s name and statues from public buildings and places.”

Eight weeks on the New York Times Bestseller list

the 2014 Lincoln Prize

The 2014 guggenheim-lehrman prize in military history

the fletcher pratt award of the new york city civil war round table

the richard harwell award of the atlanta civil war round table

"Guelzo is one of our most accomplished Civil War historians, and one of the country’s foremost Lincoln scholars. He is the first two-time winner of the Lincoln Prize—in 2000 for Abraham Lincoln: Redeemer President and in 2005 for Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation: The End of Slavery in America, the definitive treatment of that document. In addition, Guelzo’s prose is graceful and erudite—indeed, almost poetic. He is as comfortable with military topics as he is with the political, social, and economic aspects of the war and its aftermath."