The Civil War/ American Homer: A Narrative (Modern Library)

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Rebecca Savransky, “Ken Burns Says One Factor Caused the Civil War: ‘Slavery’,” The Hill, October 31, 2017.

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The Civil War: A Narrative, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox. New York: Vintage Books. 1986. ISBN 0-394-74622-8. Hidden Treasures: Searching for God in Modern Culture, James M. Wall, Christian Century Foundation, 1997, p. 12 I thoroughly enjoyed the writing style, the level of detail on the battles and the men who fought them, and Foote's ability to bring a subject of this scale to a very personal level repeatedly and consistently throughout the books.

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Mitchell, Douglas. "'The conflict is behind me now': Shelby Foote writes the Civil War." Southern Literary Journal 36#1 (2003), p.21+. online

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The Civil War: A Narrative, Red River to Chattahoochee: Another Grand Design. New York: Random House. 2005. ISBN 0-307-29029-8. First and foremost, The Civil War: A Narrative is a masterpiece of storytelling. Because Foote wrote fiction, it’s tempting to call this novelistic, but that’s far too reductive. Parts of it read like a novel, it is true. Other parts, though, read like Homer or the Bible. The Civil War is the seminal event in American history. In terms of both drama and importance, it is second to none. Shelby Foote manages to capture that sense, while also bringing these past events to vivid life. Foote's first novel, Tournament, was published in 1949. It was inspired by his planter grandfather, who had died two years before Foote's birth. For his next novel, Follow Me Down (1950), Foote drew heavily from the proceedings of a Greenville murder trial he attended in 1941 for both the plot and characters. [13]

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Minimizing hundreds of years of uncompensated, brutalized slavery, omitting the abject failure of any type of reparations, and completely ignoring the racist violence following the end of the war, “The Civil War” ultimately allowed white Americans to distance themselves from current-day racism and the persistent (and worsening) racial wealth gap. It pardoned sinners who had never asked for pardon; it erased the sadistic violence of the era that still has yet to be fully exposed; it made it all, somehow, feel worth it. Mississippi Writers Trail markers for Shelby Foote and Walker Percy unveiled in Greenville | Mississippi Development Authority". Mississippi.org . Retrieved June 16, 2020. The Civil War: A Narrative, Petersburg Siege to Bentonville (40th Anniversaryed.). Alexandria, VA: Time-Life. 2000. ISBN 0-7835-0112-9.