The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville; Fredericksburg to Meridian; Red River to Appomattox.
"The Civil War defined us as what we are and it opened us to being what we became, good and bad things... It was the crossroads of our being, and it was a hell of a crossroads": Shelby Foote’s Classic Civil War Trilogy; Warmly Inscribed by Him In volume One
The Civil War: A Narrative: Fort Sumter to Perryville; Fredericksburg to Meridian; Red River to Appomattox.
FOOTE, Shelby.
Item Number: 116771
New York: Random House, 1958-74.
Later printings of the author’s authoritative text on The Civil War. Octavo, 3 volumes, cartographic endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author in the year of publication opposite the half-title page of volume one, “For J. Ives Townsend with affection + gratitude from Shelby Foote Columbia, S.C. 21 Oct 98.” Fine in a fine dust jackets. Jacket design by Jeanyee Wong. Illustrations by Fred Banbery.
"Shelby Foote remained relatively unknown before his role in Ken Burns’ [documentary film] The Civil War made him a cultural icon. Since that event, Foote has become widely viewed as an authority on the Civil War, and more generally, as a representative of an era and region whose place continues to be central to our country’s understanding of itself" (University of Mississippi). "His mission was to tell what he considered America’s biggest story as a vast, finely detailed, deeply human narrative A model of what military history can be" (New York Times). Named by Modern Library as one of the 100 best non-fiction books of the twentieth century.
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