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re: Shelby Foote’s Civil War Series
Posted on 6/20/23 at 4:40 pm to Fewer Kilometers
Posted on 6/20/23 at 4:40 pm to Fewer Kilometers
I think Foote did an audio for the Gettysburg part in his own voice (Stars in Their Courses) but the full audiobook series is narrated by Grover Gardner who in my opinion is perfect for this series.
If you haven’t heard it I highly recommend you listen to his 3-hour cspan interview from his home.
LINK
If you haven’t heard it I highly recommend you listen to his 3-hour cspan interview from his home.
LINK
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Posted on 6/25/23 at 6:36 pm to Rum Ham
Is he still pushing the theory that the civil war wasn't about slavery?
Posted on 6/25/23 at 10:04 pm to ecb
No
Posted on 7/10/23 at 12:24 pm to ecb
It wasn't about slavery.
Posted on 7/10/23 at 3:15 pm to Musashi
I burned an audible credit for book 1. Man this is a chore to get through.
Not sure I’ll do audiobook for books 2 and 3. But it will take me months to read each book.
I often end up looking up a battle on my phone for context as to where it’s at .
Not sure I’ll do audiobook for books 2 and 3. But it will take me months to read each book.
I often end up looking up a battle on my phone for context as to where it’s at .
Posted on 7/23/23 at 7:31 pm to Rum Ham
I’ve never read any of the 3 volumes start to finish. The great thing about it is you can take it off the shelf and open any one of them and just start reading and it’ll suck you in for a couple hours. Probably done that a least a dozen times now.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 7:36 pm to Musashi
Shelby Foote has one of the most beautiful voices I’ve ever heard. I would listen to him reading the phone book if I had to.
Posted on 7/23/23 at 8:46 pm to Eyeofthetiger78
You are right it was about money,like all wars, and the only way the planter class thought they could make money was with slaves...
Posted on 7/25/23 at 10:51 am to prplhze2000
Edward Pollard was a fraudulent Confederate propagandist. He didn’treally try to hide his sympathies. His work has long been discredited.
Posted on 8/1/23 at 12:25 pm to Jefferson Dawg
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Did the Ashokan Farewell violin music ripen your oh so innocent heart to take in this documentary of aggressive vile lies and propaganda??
I’m around a lot of southern history types, I’ve actually never heard anyone have this take. Care to elaborate?
Posted on 8/7/23 at 3:06 pm to ecb
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You are right it was about money,like all wars, and the only way the planter class thought they could make money was with slaves...
And fair enough this is true. But, the Yankee industrialists definitely enjoyed the benefits of low cost cotton, lumber, food, and all the other things that slave labor in the South provided. It even depressed the price of competing products produced in the Midwest and NE, including the price of the competing labor in those non-slave areas.
Setting the abject, utter inhumanity of that peculiar institution aside, it was bad economics even for Southerners (most of whom neither directly owned slaves nor benefitted directly from slave labor) whose own labor was depressed when competing against slaves, even semiskilled and skilled labor. This was a big problem because the larger slaveholdings had all the trades represented among their slaves. If they were underutilized (or, otherwise had a labor surplus), the owners would rent out the surplus labor in direct competition with white tradesmen and craftsmen.
It was a both a horrific, inhumane institution and ultimately an unsustainable business practice. It had to end and I only wish it could have been ended without bloodshed (or so much bloodshed, at least).
This post was edited on 8/7/23 at 3:07 pm
Posted on 8/16/23 at 1:48 pm to Rum Ham
Gosh I'm getting old.
I met Mr Foote in 1988 or 89 in a body shop off of Winchester Ave, on old Pigeon Roost Road in Memphis named The Auto Smithery. (Met Fred Smith getting his Countach fixed there as well.)
Mr Foote gave me a signed copy of his Fort Sumter to Perryville book that day that he happened to have in his Buick. That was around the time he had become famous on the Ken Burns series on PBS.
He was a delightful gentleman to speak with and was fascinated by my SC roots to both Fort Sumter and my Kentucky connection to Perryville not to mention my family connection to Fort Pillow.
I was big into metal detecting back then, civil war sites and encampments, and at the time another buddy and I from SC (he met a gal and ended up moving to Memphis and now lives in Germantown) were out there chasing NBF's retreat trail after the retaliation on Ft Pillow and down the Mississippi. Mr Foote was eager to give us some tips based upon his research ... Stacey and I actually hit a couple of previously unfound encampments thanks to him. Came away with a sword hilt, some bridal brass and 100s of miniballs. A couple of buttons, I can't remember what all else but he knew his stuff.
I had already been an avid civil war buff, it was just part of my upbringing and back then they taught SC's side of it in our schools in SC ... but Mr Foote set me on an obsessive path and now I have books just about civil war maps, I have journals and diaries ... my point is, I think that man brought renewed interest to it that, unfortunately has now waned (wained?) Wayned,
I met Mr Foote in 1988 or 89 in a body shop off of Winchester Ave, on old Pigeon Roost Road in Memphis named The Auto Smithery. (Met Fred Smith getting his Countach fixed there as well.)
Mr Foote gave me a signed copy of his Fort Sumter to Perryville book that day that he happened to have in his Buick. That was around the time he had become famous on the Ken Burns series on PBS.
He was a delightful gentleman to speak with and was fascinated by my SC roots to both Fort Sumter and my Kentucky connection to Perryville not to mention my family connection to Fort Pillow.
I was big into metal detecting back then, civil war sites and encampments, and at the time another buddy and I from SC (he met a gal and ended up moving to Memphis and now lives in Germantown) were out there chasing NBF's retreat trail after the retaliation on Ft Pillow and down the Mississippi. Mr Foote was eager to give us some tips based upon his research ... Stacey and I actually hit a couple of previously unfound encampments thanks to him. Came away with a sword hilt, some bridal brass and 100s of miniballs. A couple of buttons, I can't remember what all else but he knew his stuff.
I had already been an avid civil war buff, it was just part of my upbringing and back then they taught SC's side of it in our schools in SC ... but Mr Foote set me on an obsessive path and now I have books just about civil war maps, I have journals and diaries ... my point is, I think that man brought renewed interest to it that, unfortunately has now waned (wained?) Wayned,
Posted on 8/16/23 at 7:58 pm to scrooster
That’s cool. I think I remember reading that he wasn’t overly generous giving autographs out.
Something like he thought it should mean something if he did. So getting one like that is a cool story.
Something like he thought it should mean something if he did. So getting one like that is a cool story.
Posted on 8/16/23 at 9:05 pm to Sus-Scrofa
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That’s cool. I think I remember reading that he wasn’t overly generous giving autographs out.
Something like he thought it should mean something if he did. So getting one like that is a cool story.
Yeah I kinda think he got that way after the Ken Burns series on PBS. When I met him was around the time they were putting that together and no one really knew who he was.
It was a shame how much he came under attack, before his death, by the revisionist historians.
I hate modern BS history being published and preached these days. So many lies, so much conjecture.
Posted on 9/11/23 at 10:32 pm to ecb
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Is he still pushing the theory that the civil war wasn't about slavery?
I watched an interview of him today. He didn’t say the Civil War wasn’t about slavery. That’s not accurate.
Slavery was one of the reasons for the conflict, but if you had asked any soldier on either side what they were fighting for it’s unlikely anyone would say “slavery” .
I have read hundreds of letters online, written during the Civil War by both Confederate and Union soldiers and the word “slavery” was NEVER mentioned, not once.
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