Shelby Dade Foote Jr. (November 17, 1916 – June 27, 2005) was an American writer, historian and journalist. Although he primarily viewed himself as a...
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Walker Percy (section Friendship with Shelby Foote)
Catholic faith. He had a lifelong friendship with author and historian Shelby Foote and spent much of his life in Covington, Louisiana, where he died of...
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million-word history of the American Civil War by Shelby Foote. Although previously known as a novelist, Foote is most famous for this non-fictional narrative...
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narration by David McCullough, anecdotes and insights from authors such as Shelby Foote, historians Barbara J. Fields, Ed Bearss, and Stephen B. Oates; and actors...
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American money manager; son of Shelby Cullom Davis Shelby Foote (1916–2005), American historian and novelist Shelby Gaines (fl. mid-1990s), American...
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Tennessee literature (section Shelby Foote)
from this period include James Agee, Cormac McCarthy, Peter Taylor, Shelby Foote, and Allen Tate. During this period, the social and artistic movement...
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review consisted of Daniel J. Boorstin, A. S. Byatt, Christopher Cerf, Shelby Foote, Vartan Gregorian, Edmund Morris, John Richardson, Arthur Schlesinger...
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he played poker at the Elks Club. Foote died on July 18, 1915, in Greenville, Mississippi. His grandson, Shelby Foote, became a renowned author of historic...
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historical novel set during the American Civil War, written in 1952 by Shelby Foote. It employs the first-person perspectives of several protagonists, Union...
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willingness to try any available opportunity. Likewise, the historian Shelby Foote included the canal as one of seven different failed attempts made before...
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