Look at Flaubert: He didn't criticize Emma Bovary as a terrible woman he didn't judge her he just put down what happened." My job was to put it all in perspective, to give it shape. I quite deliberately left those things out. Foote answered his critics by saying: "My hope was that if I wrote well enough about what you would have seen with your own eyes, you yourself would see how those things, the politics and economics, entered in. He received darts for the books' perceived failings as an academic undertaking he didn't bother with footnotes and touched only vaguely on larger themes of the war's origin and ramifications. "The Civil War: A Narrative," released between 19, was written with a literate flair, a mournful lyricism that underscored the human agony of battle, defeat and victory. He was called William Faulkner's heir apparent for his early fictional work, often grim and gothic tales from his native Mississippi that focused on farmers, gamblers and assorted ne'er-do-wells. Foote was a college dropout, a court-martialed Army veteran of World War II, a testy and provocative personality and an acclaimed novelist. He had had a heart attack after a recent pulmonary embolism. Shelby Foote, 88, the novelist and historian whose three-volume study of the Civil War and appearances on the PBS series "The Civil War" brought him national celebrity, died June 27 at Baptist Hospital in Memphis, his city of residence.
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