My great grandmother, born in 1921 in Charleston South Carolina had the same accent as Shelby. I knew something was appealing about his voice to me, but it didn’t hit me until he said ‘Rivuh’ and then I realized he has the same old style southern accent as she did. Good man, Shelby.

Historians don't come as good as this fella did, fantastic knowledge 🙏

If anyone here hasn't seen teh documentary he's talking about on Huey Long, you need to watch it NOW. It's a masterpiece, and has huge bearing on our political state today. Huey Long and trump are incredibly similar.

Mr. Foote was a true national treasure. I'm glad he left his writings for future generations to read, because his understanding of the Civil War is one of the most comprehensive that I've ever read. In 2024, it seems like we'd prefer to erase the ugly parts of our history as a nation and I think Mr. Foote was correct in that such narrow thinking is a real tragedy.

Dr. Harrelson inspired me to learn about Shelby Foote.

I watched booknotes every Sunday for years. I miss Brian. I read Shelbys 3 vol set.

Who would be uncomfortable reading this...some moron like this interviewer

I always wondered who lived back there, that place with the overgrown drive that seemed still to be used enough to still allow vehicles.

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what a great interviewer this bloke was!

As a Yankee both literally and figuratively, I will always listen to Shelby with respect and delight.

If there is anyone who can save America from its current divide, it would take a very special person. Not a Biden, not a Trump. It would be Shelby Foote. It is our great loss that he is no longer with us.

Shelby's mom was... Jewish 😮😮😮

I hope all generations have a Shelby Foote to inspire them to look into our past, like he did for me.

Don't let the accent fool you, folks. I'm a Civil War reenactor and a lifelong military historian. None of that means that I'm absolutely right, very few of us are, but I am confident in my reading and experiences. But then, as Andrew Carnagie once said, 'My opinion changes as soon as the facts do'. Shelby Foote was a towering figure among Civil War historians, not only for his demeanor and humility, but also for his intellect and, most importantly, his intellectual honesty. He was never afraid to admit when he was wrong and felt that the Civil War was too important a subject to the American people to fill with hyperbole and pithy slogans. He wrote about the War in a forthright honest manner, never straying from the facts as he knew them and correcting himself on the few occasions he did find himself in error. If you read his books, and I can't recommend them enough, you'll find stuff in them that pisses off both Corn-fed and Bluebelly. He upsets what you were taught in high school with malice and forethought and actually makes you **think** about the causes of the War entirely separately from the issue of Abolition/Slavery. Then he reexamines those issues with Abolition stirred back in. And Shelby Foote never once apologized for his Southern roots but also never tried to apologize for the Confederacy. He believed in the United States as a whole, but said that it would never be whole until the ghosts of the Civil War were acknowledged and respected. And to answer some of the replies I'm likely to get: - No, I don't reenact a Confederate unit. My reenacting company is a Federal [Union/Yankee] Regular Army company. - I don't live in the South and never have. I was raised on the West Coast, but I do have Southern relatives. - I haven't done any family research into the War. I have no idea which side my people were on. I like to think that this gives me a sense of objectivity on the subject that a rucksack full of family myth and legend would not allow.

I, too, grew up in those times in the South as well as in the North. The major difference I saw between the two regions was that the Southerners mostly loved the individual and hated the race while the Northerners loved the race but hated the individual. Of course, today, we all seem to hate everybody in one way or another. Sad.

I watched the "civil war" in awe..and there was something timeless and so southern about Shelby Foote when his spoke , with his accent. It was like a ,sometimes, jaded reflective southern officer giving honest and even appraisal of events he actually was involved in. RIP great storyteller 😢❤🌹

What an intelligent and eloquent man.

A superb and concise history of the Civil War by a wonderful writer.

He must not have talked to anyone African American. 😮😮😮

He got paid to guzzle and drink, down and embibe copious amounts of alcohol for 20 years, with pay.😮😮😮

Civil war volume 1 Shelby Foote

I love Mr Foote!! I've read just about everything he's put out... he's just terrific at putting you there and getting you to understand the various sides of the issues at the time. And when he speaks...I could listen all day every day.

Shelby Foote looks and sounds like my image of an laid back Civil War historian. Even his name sounds like one.

Now wonder historians didn't like Shelby Foote. That swipe about many historians being bad writers must've stung a few. (But it probably remains accurate.) And they were probably envious of this success and fame thanks to Ken Burns.

I could listen to Shelby Foote speak for hours on end. I wish Shelby had read his monumental work for the audiobook.

Stonewall Jackass is more like it

Dude wrote three huge books about the Civil War. Never once even implied that slavery was wrong and that the south's defense of it was evil.

I (think) I met Mr. Foote once. I didn't know who he was at the time so my memory isn't very clear. What a great scholar..

He is such a interesting man. I love listening to him.

ShotMy Foote is gonna blame God and the Devil instead of the DEEP SOUTH

I have a 2nd comment. I keep hearing story after story on how learned, innovative, concerned about a lasting legacy of literature for all(and on and on) that Bennett Cerf was. All fall short of his importance.

Brilliant, thoughtful and very humble… should be required reading..

Shelby is a great storyline teller. He had me compelled during the Ken Burns Documentary

Great accent🇺🇸

I think he was there during the Civil War aka General George Patton. Reincarnated.

Shelby Foote is the ONLY Civil War historian that has a balanced perspective on the war. Ken Burns would do him justice by becoming more like Mr. Foote and less like some liberal apologists!!

Is that an Eames lounge chair he's sitting in? Damn

I truly miss this man

"I don't like some half assed writer telling me what Robert E. Lee was thinking" Lord knows there plenty of writers telling us what Lee was thinking. I could listen to Shelby Foote talk about doing the laundry all day. He is greatly missed.

Wonderful

He certainly seemed to be a gentleman

He’s hard to forget, once you see him. His face is very distinguishable

If I had to change voices, I would choose Selby’s. Stonewall Jackson likely developed Diffuse Alveolar Damage which has been called Danang Lung and shock lung, a non infectious acute respiratory condition with a variety of cause including hypovolemia from battle wounds.

My favorite Civil War historian!

I could listen to Shelby Foote talk about the weather

I wonder what Shelby Foote would think about our country today, and if he would see the possibility of another Civil War.

Foote's voice was like no other and had a way of tapping into our emotions in a gentle way. I often thought that perhaps he was the reincarnation of a Confederate soldier himself. I could listen to him speak on anything, hoping that I could somehow learn to emulate his mellifluous tone.

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A true Aristocrat.