is there a nonfiction author or book you would like to see featured on booktv? send us an e-mail at booktv@c-span.org. or tweet us at twitter.com/booktv. and now more from liberty university and lynchburg, virginia. book tv interview professor brian melton about his new biography of confederate general robert e. lee. this interview was part of booktv s college series and is about half an hour. on your screen is brian melton s new book, robert e. lee: a biography. professor melton, why have over 2000 books been written about robert e. lee speak what he such a fascinating man an integral part of american history. it s that simple. and then, of course, there s the fact that after the war was over with, when so many people, particularly south of the mason-dixon, were so desperate to revisit the war and try to scare out where could they run, leaking sort of epitomizes that idea. that only if lee been in charge whole time, if only lee been able to leave them better. then pe