I have never read a better, more vivid, more understandable
account of the savage battling between Grant''s and Lee''s armies....
Foote stays with the human strife and suffering, and unlike most
Southern commentators, he does not take sides. In objectivity, in
range, in mastery of detail in beauty of language and feeling for
the people involved, this work surpasses anything else on the
subject.... It stands alongside the work of the best of
them.--New Republic
關於作者:
Shelby Foote was born on November 7, 1916 in Greenville,
Mississippi, and attended school there until he entered the
University of North Carolina. During World War II he served as a
captain of field artillery but never saw combat. After World War II
he worked briefly for the Associated Press in their New York
bureau. In 1953 he moved to Memphis, where he lived for the
remainder of his life.
Foote was the author of six novels: Tournament, Follow Me
Down, Love in a Dry Season, Shiloh, Jordan
County, and September, September. He is best remembered
for his 3-volume history The Civil War: A Narrative, which
took twenty years to complete and resulted in his being a featured
expert in Ken Burns'' acclaimed Civil War documentary. Over the
course of his writing career, Foote was also awarded three
Guggenheim fellowships.
Shelby Foote died in 2005 at the age of 88.