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Shelby Foote

Born

in Greenville, Mississippi, The United States

November 17, 1916

Died

June 27, 2005

Genre

History, Military History, Romance

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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. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was relatively unknown to the general public for most of his career until his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990, where he introduced a generation of Americans to a war that he believed was "central to all our lives."

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Average rating: 4.41 · 49,972 ratings · 2,755 reviews · 109 distinct works • Similar authors

	The Civil War, Vol. 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville 4.45 avg rating — 13,969 ratings — published 1958 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Civil War: A Narrative 4.53 avg rating — 8,159 ratings — published 1963 — 40 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Civil War, Vol. 2: Fredericksburg to Meridian 4.54 avg rating — 7,856 ratings — published 1963 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Civil War, Vol. 3: Red River to Appomattox 4.55 avg rating — 7,647 ratings — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Shiloh 4.10 avg rating — 5,797 ratings — published 1952 — 57 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Stars in Their Courses: The Gettysburg Campaign, June-July 1863 4.45 avg rating — 1,787 ratings — published 1994 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Love in a Dry Season 3.72 avg rating — 620 ratings — published 1951 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Follow Me Down 3.90 avg rating — 402 ratings — published 1950 — 27 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign 4.25 avg rating — 360 ratings — published 1995 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy by Shelby Foote, Walker Percy, Jay Tolson (Editor) 4.19 avg rating — 303 ratings — published 1996 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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The Civil War (3 books)
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The Civil War: A Narrative, 40th Anniversary Edition (14 books)
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The Civil War: A Narrative (9 books)
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Quotes by Shelby Foote (?)

“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
― Shelby Foote

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“I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”
― Shelby Foote

tags: boredom, perfection, utopia

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“I can’t begin to tell you the things I discovered while I was looking for something else.”
― Shelby Foote

tags: research

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Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler

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Interview with the Vampire, by Anne Rice

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Other Voices, Other Rooms, by Truman Capote

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The Second Coming, by Walker Percy

7 votes 14.0%

A Streetcar Named Desire, by Tennessee Williams

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Chickamauga and Other Civil War Stories, by Shelby Foote

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