GDG- GDG - Foote (notes) delurking briefly

[Carl Chatto]

Foote is good to read in contrast with McPherson's Battle Cry of Freedom 
to see the Southern vs. Northern viewpoint.

Carl

Bob Guthrie wrote:
> Esteemed GDG Member Contributes:
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> I've loved Shelby Foote's trilogy since I first picked it up 20 some years
> ago.   I heard Mr. Foote speak at a writer's conference before his death and
> he was a delightful speaker.  But I don't really believe he thought of
> himself as either the eminent historian that Ken Burn's may have accidently
> turned him into, nor the author of "the last word" on the war.  He wrote a
> narrative history of the American Civil War with essentially a Southern
> viewpoint, period. I don't find the lack of footnotes or a bibliography
> diminishes the enjoyment of the writing at all.
>
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