"Mount Vernon! Der-der-der-der!" The Man Who Would Not Be Washington by Jonathan Horn

Is Robert E. Lee the "gallant Christian knight" of your 4th-grade history textbook, or just a guy who bet his life on the side that kept him lazy and wealthy? In this episode of Elton Reads A Book A Week , we’re dissecting Jonathan Horn’s The Man Who Would Not Be Washington . We’re taking a sledgehammer to the "Lost Cause" myth—that strange, deeply insecure fan-fiction Southern apologists wrote to…