{"title":"Shelby Foote","description":"Shelby Foote was an American historian and novelist. He was born on November 7, 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served as a captain of field artillery but never saw combat. After World War II he worked briefly for the Associated Press in their New York bureau. In 1953 he moved to Memphis, where he lived for the remainder of his life.","products":[{"product_id":"fredericksburg-to-meridian-paperback","title":"Fredericksburg to Meridian - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eFocused on the pivotal year of 1863, the second volume of Shelby Foote's masterful narrative history brings to life the Battle of Gettysburg and Grant's Vicksburg campaign and covers some of the most dramatic and important moments in the Civil War. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Includes maps throughout. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"This, then, is narrative history--a kind of history that goes back to an older literary tradition.... The writing is superb...one of the historical and literary achievements of our time.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe Washington Post Book World\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \" Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist's skill in directing the reader's attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better.\" --\u003ci\u003eAtlantic\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Though the events of this middle year of the Civil War have been recounted hundreds of times, they have rarely been re-created with such vigor and such picturesque detail.\" --\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The lucidity of the battle narratives, the vigor of the prose, the strong feeling for the men from generals to privates who did the fighting, are all controlled by constant sense of how it happened and what it was all about. Foote has the novelist's feeling for character and situation, without losing the historian's scrupulous regard for recorded fact. \u003cb\u003eThe Civil War\u003c\/b\u003e is likely to stand unequaled.\" --Walter Mills\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFREDERICKSBURG TO MERIDIAN \u003cbr\u003e\"Gettysburg...is described with such meticulous attention to action, terrain, time, and the characters of the various commanders that I understand, at last, what happened in that battle.... Mr. Foote has an acute sense of the relative importance of events and a novelist's skill in directing the reader's attention to the men and the episodes that will influence the course of the whole war, without omitting items which are of momentary interest. His organization of facts could hardly be better.\"--\"Atlantic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlready recognized as one of the finest histories ever fashioned by an American, this is a narrative of over a million and a half words which recreates on a vast and brilliant canvas the events and personalities of an American epic: The Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366007701727,"sku":"9780394746210","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/WZMJphb6dI9780394746210.webp?v=1789077290"},{"product_id":"the-civil-war-v3-red-river-to-appomattox-paperback","title":"The Civil War: V3 Red River to Appomattox - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis final volume of Shelby Foote's masterful narrative history of the Civil War brings to life the military endgame, the surrender at Appomattox, and the tragic dénouement of the war--the assassination of President Lincoln. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Features maps throughout.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e \u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\"An unparalleled achievement, an American \u003ci\u003eIliad\u003c\/i\u003e, a unique work uniting the scholarship of the historian and the high readability of the first-class novelist.\" --Walker Percy \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"To read this chronicle is an awesome and moving experience. History and literature are rarely so thoroughly combined as here; one finishes this volume convinced that no one need undertake this particular enterprise again.\" \u003ci\u003e--Newsweek \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail, in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject. . . . Written in the tradition of the great historian-artists--Gibbon, Prescott, Napier, Freeman--it stands alongside the work of the best of them.\"\u003ci\u003e --The New Republic \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"The most written-about war in history has, with this completion of Shelby Foote's trilogy, been given the epic treatment it deserves.\" \u003ci\u003e--Providence Journal \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eI have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable account of the savage battling between Grant's and Lee's armies.... Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of them.--\"New Republic\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eAlready recognized as one of the finest histories ever fashioned by an American, this is a narrative of over a million and a half words which recreates on a vast and brilliant canvas the events and personalities of an American epic: The Civil War.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366007963871,"sku":"9780394746227","price":34.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/2kgUc7DJhC9780394746227.webp?v=1789077292"},{"product_id":"the-civil-war-a-narrative-volume-1-fort-sumter-to-perryville-paperback","title":"The Civil War: A Narrative: Volume 1: Fort Sumter to Perryville - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThis first volume of Shelby Foote's classic narrative of the Civil War opens with Jefferson Davis's farewell to the United Senate and ends on the bloody battlefields of Antietam and Perryville, as the full, horrible scope of America's great war becomes clear. Exhaustively researched and masterfully written, Foote's epic account of the Civil War unfolds like a classic novel. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Includes maps throughout. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives...a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters.\"--Van Allen Bradley, \u003ci\u003eChicago Daily News \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A stunning book full of color, life, character and a new atmosphere of the Civil War, and at the same time a narrative of unflagging power. Eloquent proof that an historian should be a writer above all else.\" --Burke Davis \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"To read this great narrative is to love the nation--to love it through the living knowledge of its mortal division. Whitman, who ultimately knew and loved the bravery and frailty of the soldiers, observed that the real Civil War would never be written and perhaps \u003ci\u003eshould\u003c\/i\u003e not be. For me, Shelby Foote has written it.... This work was done to last forever.\" --James M. Cox, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eFORT SUMTER TO PERRYVILLE \u003cbr\u003e\"Anyone who wants to relive the Civil War, as thousands of Americans apparently do, will go through this volume with pleasure.... Years from now, Foote's monumental narrative most likely will continue to be read and remembered as a classic of its kind.\"--\"New York Herald Tribune Book Review \u003cbr\u003e\"Here, for a certainty, is one of the great historical narratives of our century, a unique and brilliant achievement, one that must be firmly placed in the ranks of the masters.\"--Van Allen Bradley, \"Chicago Daily News\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51366008127711,"sku":"9780394746234","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/MM7KP_e-eH9780394746234.webp?v=1789077293"},{"product_id":"jordan-county-paperback","title":"Jordan County - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe author of the epic Civil War history creates an unforgettable fictional chronicle of seven generations in Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war and Reconstruction are as tangible as geological formations. \"Marvelously exact and positive\".--The New Yorker.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFront Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eBefore Shelby Foote under took his epic history of the Civil War, he wrote this fictional chronicle -- \"a landscape in narrative\" -- of Jordan County, Mississippi, a place where the traumas of slavery, war, and Reconstruction are as tangible as rock formations. The seven stories in Jordan County move backward in time, from 1950 to 1797, and through the lives of characters as diverse as a black horn player doomed by tuberculosis and convulsive jealousy, a tormented and ineffectual fin-de-siecle aristocrat, and a half-wild frontiersman who builds a plantation in Choctaw territory only to watch it burn at the close of the Civil War. In prose of almost Biblical gravity; and with a deep knowledge of the ways in which history shapes human lives -- and sometimes warps them beyond repair -- Foote gives us an ambitious, troubling work of fiction that builds on the traditions of William Faulkner and Flannery O'Connor but that is resolutely unique.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374409318623,"sku":"9780679736165","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/AQoNNit-e79780679736165.webp?v=1789178929"},{"product_id":"love-in-a-dry-season-paperback","title":"Love in a Dry Season - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eShelby Foote's magnificently orchestrated novel anticipates much of the subject matter of his monumental Civil War trilogy, rendering the clash between North and South with a violence all the more shocking for its intimacy. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eLove in a Dry Season\u003c\/i\u003e describes an erotic and economic triangle, in which two wealthy and fantastically unhappy Mississippi families, the Barcrofts and the Carrutherses, are joined by an open-faced fortune hunter from the North, a man whose ruthlessness is matched only by his inability to understand the people he tries to exploit and his fatal incomprehension of the passions he so casually ignites. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCombining a flawless sense of place with a Faulknerian command of the grotesque, Foote's novel turns a small cotton town into a sexual battleground as fatal as Vicksburg or Shiloh, and one where strategy is no match for instinct and tradition.","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51374760526047,"sku":"9780679736189","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0813\/8958\/4607\/files\/aopBim4LIY9780679736189.webp?v=1789186045"}],"url":"https:\/\/blackandbarhe.com\/collections\/shelby-foote.oembed","provider":"Black \u0026 Barhe Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}