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Jun 23, 2024 · Shelby Foote (born November 17, 1916, Greenville, Mississippi, U.S.—died June 27, 2005, Memphis, Tennessee) was an American historian, novelist, and short-story writer known for his works treating the United States Civil War and the American South.
3 days ago · Shelby Foote, 1916-2005: Writer poured 20 years into “Civil War” trilogy (2024) Novelist and historian Shelby Foote, whose Southern storyteller's touch inspired millions to read his multivolume work on the Civil War...
Jun 13, 2024 · Stephen White of Catholic University shares lessons from Shelby Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative as he listens to it on his commute: “And that only accounts for Northern opinion.
Jun 13, 2024 · But I am currently about halfway through the third volume of Shelby Foote’s three-brick masterpiece, The Civil War: A Narrative, which, in print, comes in at just under 3,000 pages. Atlanta has just fallen to Sherman, and Grant is laboring around Petersburg. Foote’s narrative style makes for easier listening than most non-fiction.
Jun 19, 2024 · Poetic Feete. I had what was for me an unusual experience last year: I read a few hundred pages of Shelby Foote’s history of the American Civil War and didn’t enjoy what I read. The work is massive, and I had read it one-and-two-thirds times, a few hundred pages a year for at least fifteen years, and I had never had a ...
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6 days ago · Whether the guests are celebrities like Bill Bradley or Shelby Foote, or lesser-known scholars, poets, diplomats, officials, and authors, the conversations are uniformly gripping and thoughtful.
