![]() ![]() ![]() Then I turned back and killed him and had Stanton say, ‘Now he belongs to the ages.’ A strange feeling, though. I was in such a state of shock, I not only let him in I even signed the goddam books, a thing I seldom do. While I was doing it (he had his chest arched up, holding his last breath to let it out) some halfassed doctor came to the door with vols I and II under his arm, wanting me to autograph them for his son for Xmas. As he approached the end of the final volume, Foote recounted this scene in a letter to his friend, the novelist Walker Percy: “I killed Lincoln last week-Saturday, at noon. Thirty years and a million and a half words later-every word having been written out longhand with nib pens dipped into ink-Foote published the third and final volume of what has become the classic narrative of that epic war. ![]() Random House publisher Bennett Cerf commissioned southern novelist Shelby Foote to write a short, one-volume history of the American Civil War. Synopsis On the occasion of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, the Modern Library publishes Shelby Foote’s three-volume masterpiece in a new boxed set including three hardcovers and a new trade paperback, American Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic Civil War: A Narrative, edited by and with an introduction from Pulitzer Prize winner Jon Meacham and including essays by Michael Beschloss, Ken Burns, Annette Gordon-Reed, and others. Shelby Foote's The Civil War-A Narrative 3 volume hardcover box set With American Homer ![]()
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