Attended a lecture by Foote once. 4,000 people were in attendance.
It took me about five tries to get through the first volume. After I did, volumes two and three were like a fine novel, where knowing the ending didn’t detract from the experience.
Loved Shelby Foote. He’s the kind of person you’d want to sit and talk to for hours. Very few like him are left.
I have the three volumes but have never tried it. I also have Bruce Catton’s books - there’s a name not to be forgotten. I prefer the older historians on the cw because the modern “historians” make me puke.
When I retired 7 years ago, I just knew I’d finally have the time to read Foote’s CW Trilogy. Alas, all three volumes sit on my bookshelf untouched by human hands.
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My son’s a CW buff. Just ordered the trilogy through Amazon for him. Thanks for the article.
I have read all of Bruce Catton’s works and am now working through Douglas Freeman. I have a lot of other histories to read, but am saving Foote for the icing on the cake.
After seeing the Civil War on Public Broadcasting, I wonder if it would be allowed to air now.
Some years ago I read ‘Traveler’ by Richard Adams.
Civil War novel as told by Gen Robt. E. Lee’s horse.
It’s written in southern horse dialect making it difficult at first. But shortly you get the hang of it.
Enjoyed it.
For example?
I am a proud owner of Bruce Cattons mammoth pictorial volume "The Civil War".
But I am still most partial to Carl Sandburg's "Lincoln".
I have read through his three volumes twice in my life; best scholarship and very readable as well.
I’ve read it several times, and, am in the middle of Vol 2 as an audio (just finished Gettysburg).
I think Foote could have written the instructions on how to use shampoo and it would be riveting.
Any of you folks ever play “The Civil War” from Victory Games?