Welcome to Atlanta History Centers, virtual author talk series. Im here for the history center, its my absolute pleasure to welcome tonights special guest, alan guelzo. Allen will be discussing his newest book, robert e. Lee a life, it comprehensive biography of a figure a lot of us think we might now, but will cover new interesting insight about him. If i said earlier, it was just published yesterday, so congratulations allen, were so excited to have you a day after publication day. You can purchase a copy of the book from the Atlanta History Center bookstore its online, we ship, there is instore pick up. We want to quickly introduce my speaker and then turn it over to him. And give an orientation an introduction to his work. Allen guelzo is a Research Scholar at the council of humanities, princeton university. Hes a specialist in early 19th century american history. He won the lincoln prize three times, a prize for military history and other honors. He lives in pennsylvania allen, we