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Telling History vs. Making Art: The Civil War’s great storyteller
Part six in a series. No written work embodies the tension between art and history more fully than Shelby Foote’s mammoth three-volume The Civil War: A Narrative. Few people realize Foote was a novelist before he became the “warm and … Continue reading
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Tagged History-vs-Art, Ken Burns, Shelby Foot, Shiloh, The Civil War: A Narrative
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