Shelby Foote was not only a great writer/ novelist but his infectious personality was spell binding and kept the listener glued to every word spoken. You know that every word spoken came from his heart as truism and never sugar coated. And that translated to every word written in his novels. With Shelby, you get the real deal and that’s refreshing in this world we live in. Many assume and associate because of his Mississippi accent, that he was a pro-southerner but he had no bias at all. He did say that being from the south, he would’ve fought for the confederacy but it wouldn’t have been because of the preservation of chattel slavery. But for his home, family and way of life. A genius of a writer and one of a kind. When he spoke I listened and hung on to every word. Remarkable and a very humble unassuming man. The best
I could listen to this guy all day. I really despise the revisionism about Foote which tries to paint him as an apologist or some 'lost cause'er - he was absolutely clear that slavery was evil and was the cause of the war. People seem to be uncomfortable hearing accounts from a Southern perspective that are anything other than purely self-flagellating.
1954-1974 phew! That's a stretch of American history that's worth writing about and this guy spent that entire time writing about the Civil War. My dad put his head down in 57', went to college and medical school and when he picked it back up again around 1972 he was a married surgeon with three kids, three dogs, three cats and a booming practice. Vietnam passed him by, the hippie movement passed him by, the assassination of JFK seemed distant to him. Maybe the moon landing made some kind of impact but not much.
Shelby Foote is a great talker...but the interviewer is not giving the right responses...he simply sits there po-faced. That is no way to interview anybody and draw the best out of them.
Comparing Jews experience is not the same with their having/being persecuted, killed, as well as enslaved for more years than can be counted, not just made slaves, given homes, work having been sold into slavery by their OWN, with that STILL going on TODAY in Africa. While every blk in the U.S. allows it, not even mentioning the fact of those thousands. Comparable to being complicit in modern day slavery.
When asked whom would you choose to narrate your life, many would say Morgan Freeman, some would say Samuel L Jackson. My choice would have been Shelby Foote.
I remember being in a hurry to get home to watch this documentary on PBS. A fantastic series, i watched it agai years later. Shelby Foote is quite a character. 😊
i read all civil war books in mr footes voice, including his own trilogy which took me a full year, and hendersons volumes which is republished like 1100 pages in tiny font about size 4 im not sure. god bless this man
45:13 this is a completed idiotic comment. African Americans have no problem being taught history but they don't want the flag of their oppressor flying over the state capital or in any place of prominence. And we need to respect their wishes. After all, it's their house too.
Finally started the 4 Volume Set of Mr. Foote's History of the Civil War. I like to listen to these interviews so I can hear his rhythamic Southern voice in the Audiobook narrations. An American Master!!
FDR wasn't even close to being a great president. Internment camps, ignoring the Holocaust until 1942. He tripled taxes during the Great Depression. He tried to increase the Supreme Court to 15. At no point during the 1930s did unemployment drop below 14 percent. He hid his disability throughout his presidency.
@3:15-3:45. no great shortage of injustice in the rest of the country styles differ + change, more blunt, nasty,violent in some places, more sly+sneaky in others. Do "Southerners" learn more from immersion in blunt+violent consonance of unjust thoughts+actions than folk trained by immersion in a 2faced, talk 1way & act another, sham justice whose cognitive dissonance perpetually tests loyal devotion??? one way Southerners so proudly distinguish their glorying selfs is the assumptions they assert about categorical, unmet Others + Thems
I was born and raised in Oklahoma with lots of native Americans, Yankees, southerners, and everything else. And as I traveled throughout America I’ve met some great people in every area. God Bless America! AGAIN!
