Shelby Foote interview w/ Ken Burns(Civil War doc)

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Shelby Foote

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America’s Homer; America’s Iliad.

I’ll definitely give this a listen- I am in the middle of “Bust Hell Wide Open” (Nathan Bedford Forrest). Mind blowing the amount of balls these men had.

I’ve seen this. Could listen to him forever

People that don’t like Shelby Foote hate black people

I had a major Foote fetish back in the day. Dude was awesome to listen to

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The reading of the Sullivan Ballou letter in Burns' series really gets to me.

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I've seen it countless times, it still gets to me every single time.

I remember watching the Ken Burns Civil War doc in high school history class. Everybody complained at first but by the end everybody was so into it. We even watched Gods and Generals and Gettysburg after that.

Thanks for the link

I’m eager to watch this

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I talked to him once by phone around that time. He was the real deal

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I would think cousin* Shelby’s phone would look like this:



*We Füts stayed true to our Germanic surname spelling.

My favorite Foote quote was when he was being interviewed after the Burns doc had sparked a renewed interest in his books.

The interviewer asked him about his writing habits. He explained he generally slept in most mornings, would have a late breakfast, and would write for a few hours in the afternoon. The interviewer said, “don’t you ever do any of your writing in the evenings?”

Foote smiled and replied, “Oh, no. The evening is always reserved for my drinking.”