Just finished Shelby Foote’s three volume History of the Civil War. It is an incredible example of scholarship and writing. Not only does he provide page after page of facts but he is a beautiful, even elegant, writer.
It ranks up there with Thucydides and the Age of Federalism on the greatness scale.
Anyone interested in the Civil War should look into it.
I have that 3 vol. set. I first “met” Foote in the Ken Burns CIVIL WAR TV Series. Obviously a southern gentleman, but honest to a fault, and fair-minded from start to finish. It’s about time I read that again; this fall when the weather cools down.
“Just finished Shelby Foote’s three volume History of the Civil War”
He was featured prominently in Ken Burn’s Cival War Series. He was outstanding.