The Civil War/ American Homer: A Narrative (Modern Library)

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Survivors include his wife, Gwyn Ranier, whom he married in 1956, a daughter from his second marriage, Margaret Foote, and a son from his third marriage, Huger Foote, all of Memphis. A stunning book full of color, life, character and a new atmosphere of the Civil War, and at the same time a narrative of unflagging power. Eloquent proof that an historian should be a writer above all else." —Burke Davis Fort Sumter to Perryville” also recounts the beginnings of the parallel careers of the war's great antagonists. Jefferson Davis resigns from the U.S. Senate in 1861 and becomes President of the Confederate States of America. Meanwhile, U.S. President-elect Abraham Lincoln enters Washington DC in disguise. Robert E. Lee turns down command of all Federal armies to take up the cause of his beloved state of Virginia, and Ulysses S. Grant, formerly a Federal Army officer now eking out a living as a farmer, rejoins the Union army, becomes a Colonel of Volunteers, and almost immediately begins winning battles in the west. Drew Gilpin Faust’s Landmark: This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Turns 15 Would have benefitted from a "Cast of Players" list so reader could keep straight on who various military figures were, and provide refresher on where one had last read about them.

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Fred L. Schultz, "An interview with Shelby Foote: 'All life has a plot'." Naval History 8.5 (1994): 36–39. Foote contributed a lengthy introduction to the 1993 Modern Library edition of Stephen Crane's The Red Badge of Courage (which was published along with "The Veteran", a short story that features the hero of the larger work at the end of his life). In this introduction, Foote recounts the biography of Crane in the same narrative style as Foote's Civil War work. The Ku Klux Klan Protests as Memphis Renames a City Park - CityLab". Archived from the original on November 12, 2018 . Retrieved November 12, 2018. Mr. Foote wrote relentlessly for hours at a time with an old-fashioned dipped pen. When he finished a project, he always rewarded himself by rereading Marcel Proust, whose "Remembrance of Things Past," he noted, had 1,250,000 words.Crews, Kyle. "An “Unreligious” Affair: (Re) Reading the American Civil War in Foote's Shiloh and Warren's Wilderness." Robert Penn Warren Studies 8.1 (2008): 9+. online Shelby Foote on William Faulkner, May 2, 2002, on American Writers: A Journey Through History, C-SPAN

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In 1936 he was initiated in the Alpha Delta chapter of the Alpha Tau Omega fraternity. Interested more in the process of learning than in earning a degree, Foote was not a model student. He often skipped class to explore the library, and once he even spent the night among the shelves. He also began contributing pieces of fiction to Carolina Magazine, UNC's award-winning literary journal. [13] Foote returned to Greenville in 1937, where he worked in construction and for a local newspaper, The Delta Democrat Times. Around this time, he began to work on his first novel. Foote's Jewish heritage led him to experience discrimination at Chapel Hill, an experience that led to his later support for the Civil Rights Movement. [20]a b Harrington, Evans, and Shelby Foote. "Interview With Shelby Foote." The Mississippi Quarterly, vol. 24, no. 4, 1971, pp. 349–377, p. 359. Huebner, Timothy S., and Madeleine M. McGrady. "Shelby Foote, Memphis, and the Civil War in American memory." Southern Cultures 21#4 (2015), p.13+. online I doubt anyone who reads this will ever again think of the principal actors -- Lincoln, Davis, Stanton, Grant, Lee, McClellan, "Stonewall," and many others -- without seeing them in the light cast by Foote. He measures all and spares none. Just one example: you'd think that Lee would tower above the others in a true Southerner's treatment. Not so. Foote details many faults in Lee's personality, abilities, and actions. If anything it’s a phenomenal documentary. What would you do differently to present it, while make it captivating enough to capture the attention of the audience? (Leave out the perspectives from that moment in time??) Eric Foner, “Ken Burns and the Romance of Reunion,” in Ken Burns’s The Civil War: Historians Respond, ed. Robert Brent Toplin (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997), 112.