GDG- Re: Shelby Foote

[Dennis Lawrence]

Hello,

         There is a distinction that needs to be made between the academic 
writing and popular writing here. Editors/publishers of popular histories 
hate footnotes.  Many writers will have a difficult time getting them 
included.  Editors of scholarly history demand foot notes and you cannot 
publish without them.

Different audiences, purposes and needs.

Take Care

Dennis

At 12:34 PM 2/4/2008, you wrote:
>Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
>
>
>With all the discussion on whether it is good to include footnotes or not,  I
>did a little browse through my library to see who may not have used
>footnotes.  Others who didn't use footnotes were American Heritage in 
>their  The Civil
>War, which many of us cut our Civil War teeth on, Douglas Southall  Freeman
>in Lee's Lieutenants, Edward Bearss in Fields of Honor, and Carl  Sandburg in
>his epic biography on Lincoln, which I believe won the Pulitzer  Prize for
>history.  At least there were none in any of those editions which  I have.
>
>Just a note from a lurker.
>
>John Jorgensen
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