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Shelby Foote (1916-2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist, best known for his three-volume history of the Civil War. He had a lifelong friendship with Walker Percy and a Jewish heritage that influenced his views on the South and the Civil Rights Movement.
29 de jun. de 2005 · Shelby Foote, the historian whose incisive, seasoned commentary -- delivered in a drawl so mellifluous that one critic called it ''molasses over hominy'' -- evoked the Civil War for millions in...
26 de ago. de 2024 · Shelby Foote was an American historian, novelist, and short-story writer known for his works treating the United States Civil War and the American South. Learn about his life, his masterpiece The Civil War: A Narrative, and his appearance in Ken Burns's documentary.
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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Novelist and historian Shelby Foote, whose Southern storyteller’s touch inspired millions to read his multivolume work on the Civil War, has died. He was 88. Mr. Foote died...
29 de jun. de 2005 · MEMPHIS, Tennessee: Shelby Foote, the novelist and historian whose Southern storyteller's touch inspired millions to read his multivolume work on the Civil War, has died. He was 88. Foote died...
29 de jun. de 2005 · Shelby Foote was a novelist and a historian who wrote a three-volume, 3,000 page history of the Civil War. He became a celebrity after being interviewed by Ken Burns for his 11-hour series on the war.
This final volume of Shelby Foote’s masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic dénouement of the war—the assassination of President Lincoln. Features maps throughout.
