THERE WAS SOMETHING BEYOND OLD-fashioned–maybe the right word is archaic–about Shelby Foote. It emerged full-blown that evening a decade ago when he appeared in Ken Burns’s Civil War series as the ...
Novelist and historian Shelby Foote died Monday night. He was 88. The native Mississippian gained a sort of celebrity when he lent his gravelly voice to Ken Burns' PBS documentary series The Civil War ...
To many Americans, Shelby Foote's sleepy Southern drawl is the voice of authority on the Civil War. The author's commentary for Ken Burns' wildly popular 1990 television documentary on the subject ...