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God rest Shelby Foote.(Scan)(Brief Article)(Interview)(Obituary)
Shelby Foote--a masterful writer, thrilling historian, exemplar of much that is impressive about the American South, and a delightful man--died in late June. There will never be another like him. The following is an excerpt from a TAE interview with Foote, conducted by Bill Kauffman in Memphis, published in our January/February 2001 issue (available at TAEmag.com):
TAE: Politicians today don't even speak their own words.
FOOTE: That's always been to a degree true. Lincoln's speeches were mostly by himself, but the "better angels of our nature" was Seward. Lincoln was a political genius; he's other kinds of geniuses, too. He's a writer very close to the caliber of Mark Twain. I have found that children are no longer required to memorize the Gettysburg Address in school, and it dismays me to think of young people ...
- Shelby Foote and Walker Percy: art and God. (book review)
- The Southern Literary Journal Simpson, Lewis P. March 22, 1998 700+ words
The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy. Edited by...gratifying edition of the letters of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy with Foote's...the vocation of the novelist. Shelby Foote and Walker Percy first met in Greenville...
- The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy. (book reviews)
- The Southern Literary Journal Simpson, Lewis P. March 22, 1998 700+ words
The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy. Edited by...gratifying edition of the letters of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy with Foote's...the vocation of the novelist. Shelby Foote and Walker Percy first met in Greenville...
- Interview With Civil War Historian Shelby Foote
- Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday September 11, 1994 700+ words
...that battle, and of the Civil War, is Shelby Foote. His monumental three-volume narrative...From his home in Memphis, Tennessee, Shelby Foote gave us some background to the battle...as the high tide of the Confederacy. SHELBY FOOTE, Author, Civil War Historian: Gettysburg...
- Shelby Foote and the Art of History: Two Gates to the City.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History Malvasi, Mark G. February 1, 2006 700+ words
Shelby Foote and the Art of History: Two Gates to the City. By James Panabaker...concludes James Panabaker, "must also live as art" (p. 225). In Shelby Foote and the Art of History, Panabaker demonstrates his thesis by arguing...
- Shelby Foote: a Writer's Life.(Book Review)
- Magazine article from: Journal of Southern History Roper, John Herbert August 1, 2004 700+ words
Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life. By C. Stuart Chapman. (Jackson: University...317. $30.00, ISBN 1-57806-359-0.) Before 1958, novelist Shelby Foote moved in the second rank of the southern literary renaissance then in...
- OBITUARY: Shelby Foote.(Features)
- Newspaper article from: Daily Post (Liverpool, England) July 4, 2005 700+ words
...whisky warming the breath of the historian. That's the way Shelby Foote liked it, a folksy man, who made vivid the battles of the...their blood. Foote married three times and had two children Shelby Foote, writer; born November 17, 1916, died June 27, 2005
- Listeners Critical of Shelby Foote, Disney
- Transcript from: NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday September 25, 1994 700+ words
...I'm a history teacher, and I'd like to respond to Shelby Foote's comments that ch- history's the most boring subject...message over the Internet, adding that it was convenient for Shelby Foote to extol the virtues of learning history from a book, as...
- Shelf Life: Laughter and Remembering.('The Morality of Laughter,' 'Shelby...
- Magazine article from: National Review Potemra, Michael June 30, 2003 700+ words
...were captivated by the soft-spoken historian-novelist Shelby Foote when he was featured prominently in Ken Burns's monumental...readable biography of the man behind the impressive volumes. In Shelby Foote: A Writer's Life (Mississippi, 317 pp., $30), we...
