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June 28, 2005
Shelby Foote Dies at 88
The last gentleman is gone.
Shelby Foote, a popular Civil War historian and the preeminent Southern man of letters in the second half of the 20th century, has died. He was 88.
Like most everyone, I first knew of Foote through his courtly appearances in Ken Burns' Civil War television series. There he was the master storyteller, kind and clever. But a profile of him in Tony Horwitz's Confederates in the Attic suggests a man less lovable but more wise, and his lifelong correspondence with Walker Percy is, to my mind, the greatest documented conversation about faith and literature in the history of American letters.
| By mesh | 02:39 PM
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