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Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. [1] . Although he primarily viewed himself as a novelist, he is now best known for his authorship of The Civil War: A Narrative, a three-volume history of the American Civil War. [2]
Nov 13, 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. Foote attended the University of North Carolina for two years, and he served in the U.S. Army during World War II.
Jun 29, 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...
Shelby Foote has 94 books on Goodreads with 105934 ratings. Shelby Foote’s most popular book is The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville.
Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War, writing a massive, three-volume history of the war entitled The Civil War: A Narrative.
Jun 27, 2005 · Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. was an American novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War, writing a massive, three-volume history of the war entitled The Civil War: A Narrative.
The Civil War: A Narrative (1958–1974) is a three volume, 2,968-page, 1.2 million-word history of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote. Although previously known as a novelist, Foote is most famous for this non-fictional narrative history. While it touches on political and social themes, the main thrust of the work is military history.
Born on the 17th of November 1916, in Mississippi, Shelby Foote is one American novelist and historian that has made an unparalleled statement in the art of merging literature and history eloquently.
Jan 26, 2011 · This first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis’s farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody...
Sep 7, 2023 · Shelby Foote, failed novelist and closeted member of the Tribe, turned the Civil War into a masterpiece of American literature
