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"My second book, Follow Me Down had some success, got good critical notices, went into a second printing and things like that, but Shiloh was by far the most successful of those first five novels." -- Shelby Foote
Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. (November 17, 1916 — June 27, 2005) was an American novelist and a noted historian of the American Civil War, who wrote A Narrative, a massive, three-volume history of the war. With geographic and cultural roots in the Mississippi Delta, Foote's life and writing paralleled the radical shift from the agrarian planter system of the Old South to the Civil Rights era of the New South. Foote was relatively unknown to the general public for most of his life until his appearance in Ken Burns's PBS documentary The Civil War in 1990, where he introduced a generation of Americans to a war that he believed was "central to all our lives."

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Total Books: 144
Follow Me Down  A Novel
1993 - Follow Me Down a Novel (Paperback)
ISBN-13: 9780679736172
ISBN-10: 0679736174
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.5/5 Stars.
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Love in a Dry Season
1992 - Love in a Dry Season (Paperback)Paperback, Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9780679736189
ISBN-10: 0679736182
Genre: Literature & Fiction
  • Currently 3.4/5 Stars.
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