I've heard his prose is beautiful however. My problem with the length is that I don't want to invest such a large amount of time to a trilogy of books that are poor history when I could be reading more accurate and insightful books. It sounds like pop history with problematic views. His citations are messy and it's just poorly cited, he has some Lost Cause/ Southern sympathy views (I'm not sure if that's totally reflected in his prose but in interviews he expressed them), and it's overall not being painted as anything essential. The dilemma I have is that not only are all three books long as hell, but I understand that historians don't view his books to be accurate. Recently, I've been wanting to read books on the Civil War (ones I didn't read in college) and wondered if I should eventually give Foote's books a go. I got the box set of Shelby Foote's The Civil War for my birthday about 4-5 years ago and never got around to reading them.
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