{"product_id":"the-civil-war-boxed-set-with-american-homer-boxed-set","title":"The Civil War Boxed Set [With American Homer] - Boxed Set","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eShelby Foote\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJon Meacham\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSelected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eOn 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, \u003ci\u003eAmerican Homer: Reflections on Shelby Foote and His Classic Civil War: A Narrative, \u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eRandom House publisher Bennett Cerf commissioned southern novelist Shelby Foote to write a short, one-volume history of the American Civil War. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAs 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. 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. 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. Then I turned back and killed him and had Stanton say, 'Now he belongs to the ages.' A strange feeling, though. I have another 70-odd pages to go, and I have a fear they'll be like Hamlet with Hamlet left out. Christ, what a man. It's been a great thing getting to know him as he was, rather than as he has come to be--a sort of TV image of himself, with a ghost alongside.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen Percy read the final book, he wrote to Foote: \"It's a noble work. I'm still staggered by the size of the achievement. . . . It is \u003ci\u003eThe Iliad\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA selection of these letters, along with essays by Jon Meacham, Michael Beschloss, Ken Burns, Annette Gordon-Reed, Michael Eric Dyson, Julia Reed, Robert Loomis, Donald Graham, John M. McCardell, Jr., and Jay Tolson, are included in\u003ci\u003e American Homer, \u003c\/i\u003e the bonus paperback book available only in the Modern Library boxed set of \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War. \u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eShelby Foote's tremendous, sweeping narrative of the most fascinating conflict in our history--a war that lasted four long, bitter years, an experience more profound and meaningful than any other the American people have ever lived through--begins with Jefferson Davis's resignation from the United States Senate and Abraham Lincoln's departure from Springfield for the national capital. It is these two leaders, whose lives continually touch on the great chain of events throughout the story, who are only the first of scores of exciting personalities that in effect make \u003ci\u003eThe Civil War\u003c\/i\u003e a multiple biography set against the crisis of an age. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFour years later, Lincoln's second inaugural sets the seal, invoking \"charity for all\" on the Eve of Five Forks and the Grant-Lee race for Appomattox. Here is the dust and stench of war, a sort of Twilight of the Gods. The epilogue is Lincoln in his grave, and Davis in his postwar existence--\"Lucifer in Starlight.\" So ends a unique achievement--already recognized as one of the finest histories ever fashioned by an American--a narrative that re-creates on a vast and brilliant canvas the events and personalities of an American epic: the Civil War.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eShelby Foote \u003c\/b\u003ewas born in Greenville, Mississippi, and attended school there until he entered the University of North Carolina. During World War II he served in the European theater as a captain of field artillery. In the period since the war, he wrote five novels: \u003ci\u003eTournament, Follow Me Down, Love in a Dry Season, Shiloh, Jordan County, \u003c\/i\u003e and\u003ci\u003e September, September.\u003c\/i\u003e He was awarded three Guggenheim fellowships.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2984\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 6 x 9 x 6.6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2011\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51764162232608,"sku":"9780679643708","price":150.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/cf7e5703bd651c5c4d0d96d0cc4ea727.webp?v=1780244417","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/the-civil-war-boxed-set-with-american-homer-boxed-set","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}