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Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

Timeless Wisdom - Understanding Robert E. Lee

Timeless Wisdom with Dennis Prager

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News, Philosophy, Society & Culture, News Commentary, Politics

4.52.2K Ratings

🗓️ 26 November 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Welcome to Dennis Prager’s Timeless Wisdom. Each Monday through Saturday, you’ll hear some of Dennis’s best lectures, talks, and series—with brief commercial breaks.

On Today’s Show: 

Dennis talks to renowned biographer Michael Korda. His new book is Clouds of Glory: The Life and Legend of Robert E. Lee.

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0:50.1

So today's subject is my favorite way of learning history, and that is through biography,

0:56.7

because then you get both the personal, which I love, and the macro or social, which I love.

1:03.4

And there is a brand new biography of Robert E. Lee, the General of the Confederate Armies, the lead general.

1:13.0

What was his actual title?

1:20.2

General Robert Lee. That was it. So it was just general. Exactly. Okay. So General of the Confederate Army. The voice you just heard is the author. He has written any number of books. How many books

1:26.4

have you written?

1:32.4

You know, I've never stopped to count, but I know, but I think it's more than 25.

1:39.0

Okay, that's fair enough. And he is a New York Times bestselling author. And this time he has written about Robert E. Lee. It's titled Clouds of Glory, the life and legend of Robert E. Lee. And the book, of course, is up at

1:50.5

Dennis Prager.com. And it's just been published by Harper Collins, which is totally coincidental

1:58.1

that that's my publisher to. I have no allegiance to having authors of any given publisher.

2:05.7

I don't believe there's any conflict.

2:07.1

Yeah.

2:07.9

I just want people.

2:09.5

People are so cynical sometimes.

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