Bruce Catton

[chellers]

By using Google.

For example, when Foote quotes a CW participant, simply Google the quote. It will take you to his source.

Results of a google search do not prove Foote's source.

 

[Complicity]

Results of a google search do not prove Foote's source.

Niether do footnotes.

Nonetheless, my point is that a Google search will provide sources from which the original source can be discovered. It is not possible to "prove" that all original sources are true, simply because they are not. Participants often lied or misrepresented "facts" in a self-serving manner.

 

[chellers]

The point is, I want to know the specific source Foote used for a given statement. Footnotes are the standard of academic scholarship.

 

[Yankeedave]

Foote was a two bourbons and ice type. sometimes the facts just get in the way of a good story.

 

[gary]

Agree with chellers. The closer you get to the source, the better. I hate it when there's no footnotes or endnotes. I hate the modern style of having one endnote for the paragraph with multiple references. You have to figure out which one is the relevant one.

 

[Complicity]

The point is, I want to know the specific source Foote used for a given statement. Footnotes are the standard of academic scholarship.

The overarching point it that Foote's narrative will live long after the academic experts of his era are as forgotten as James Ford Rhodes. Catton is a similar example, but not nearly as good.

 

[Yankeedave]

Besides being a writer Catton changed the way the north was viewed by history.

 

[kel1985]

I lucked out...one of the guys at the fire station I work at brought his old copies in for a book trade...

 

[Jon G.]

I always liked Bruce Catton's writings of the CW and first learned the civil war from them. I like footnotes but rarely use them.

I have no idea what kind of writer of the CW Shelby Foote was but I sure did love to hear him tell his stories on the Burn's series.

 

[gary]

Catton was among the first to dispel the myth of Grant the Butcher.

 

[R. Evans]

I always liked Bruce Catton's writings of the CW and first learned the civil war from them. I like footnotes but rarely use them.

I have no idea what kind of writer of the CW Shelby Foote was but I sure did love to hear him tell his stories on the Burn's series.

He wrote the same way he talked. Very entertaining.