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The Civil War: A Narrative by Shelby Foote
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:03 pm
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:03 pm
Should be required reading for every citizen. What a masterpiece. 
Any of you scholars read this beautiful work?
Any of you scholars read this beautiful work?
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Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:05 pm to Hoyt
quote:it wouldn't help
Should be required reading for every citizen
but it wouldn't hoyt
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:05 pm to Hoyt
I don't need your civil war- Axl Rose
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:09 pm to LSUballs
I don't need your civil war machine
I don't need your plantation scene
(The Guess Who's original, unreleased version of "American Woman")
I don't need your plantation scene
(The Guess Who's original, unreleased version of "American Woman")
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:12 pm to Hoyt
Last time I got that excited over print material was when I found a Hustler mag in a dairy barn when I was 14.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:17 pm to Hoyt
Yes, read it back in college for my American Civil War class. Matter of fact, the professor used it way more than the course textbook. Amazing set of books.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:20 pm to Hoyt
That series in looooooooooong. Good, but long.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:20 pm to Hoyt
It's a shame the terrible condition the mansion that Foote owned on lake Washington is in. So much history in that house...the original owner (a woman) built it in the 1830s and hosted dinner there with Jefferson Davis, president Lincoln, General Sherman, Robert e lee at different times. She played both sides and was connected politically big time. because her husband was a rich Slave owner but she secretly was sympathetic to the northern cause.
The house is one of the few spared by Sherman's march because he was friends with the owner. Foote I believe lived there later on.
The house is now vacant and the roof is leaking and many of the windows are broken or boarded up, vandals have broken the sinks and stairway banisters.
Look up mount holly in glen Allan , ms
The house is one of the few spared by Sherman's march because he was friends with the owner. Foote I believe lived there later on.
The house is now vacant and the roof is leaking and many of the windows are broken or boarded up, vandals have broken the sinks and stairway banisters.
Look up mount holly in glen Allan , ms
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:29 pm to Kafka
quote:
I don't need your civil war machine
I don't need your plantation scene
(The Guess Who's original, unreleased version of "American Woman")
Damn Canadians.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:54 pm to Hoyt
It's a good series though sometimes a bit too Lost Cause for me. Another negative by product is that people focus on the military minutiae of the war rather than the larger social ramifications.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:56 pm to Hoyt
The Civil War was anything but civil.
The end.
The end.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:56 pm to Hoyt
Great book.
Actually read that one without being forced to do so!
Actually read that one without being forced to do so!
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:58 pm to Hoyt
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Shelby Foote
Love that guy.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 1:59 pm to Hoyt
Meh, I'm with Kanye on this one.
Reading is for insecure people who just want to feel smarter than everyone else.
quote:
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
Reading is for insecure people who just want to feel smarter than everyone else.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 2:01 pm to LucasP
Posted on 4/1/15 at 2:02 pm to LucasP
quote:
quote:
Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud non-reader of books.
Unless, of course, it's his book.
Posted on 4/1/15 at 2:03 pm to LucasP
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