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Our next speaker Elizabeth Brown pryor burst onto the scene in 2007 with the publication of reading the man, a portrait of robert e. Lee through his private lettersle. The book received eventually every prize in the world i think elizabeth, the lincoln prize, our Jefferson Davis award, the richard b. Harwell book award and the Richard Slatten award for excellence in virginia biography. I personally had the opportunity to read aloud an expert from an uncorrected proof of that book standing at this podium during the introduction of our 2007 simple pose yum about robert e. Lee. A sanchez often true, there is a story behind elizabeths emergence as a major civil war historian. She earned an m. A. In history from the university of pennsylvania studying withdrew gilpin faust, the now the president of Harvard University and i must tell a story about drew. When she was made the president of harvard people were sayingment is this an unbelievable, she is the first female to be the president of ha
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