Grant
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Three part miniseries on one of Ohio's most famous generals begins on the History Channel tonight @ 9pm EDT. Runs 3 consecutive nights.
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Well done, but took me to nite 3 to learn anything new.
If you are even slightly into the Civil War and have not read Shelby Foote's trilogy, then do your self a favor and read it. Shelby was the interesting grey beard commentator with the slow southern drawl in Ken Burns' PBS series. Shelby was a novelist by trade who spent 20 years of his life researching and writing this work. The result is a spectacular account of the conflict that is as engrossing as it is detailed.
"When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
Well done, but took me to nite 3 to learn anything new.
If you are even slightly into the Civil War and have not read Shelby Foote's trilogy, then do your self a favor and read it. Shelby was the interesting grey beard commentator with the slow southern drawl in Ken Burns' PBS series. Shelby was a novelist by trade who spent 20 years of his life researching and writing this work. The result is a spectacular account of the conflict that is as engrossing as it is detailed.
Well done, but took me to nite 3 to learn anything new.
If you are even slightly into the Civil War and have not read Shelby Foote's trilogy, then do your self a favor and read it. Shelby was the interesting grey beard commentator with the slow southern drawl in Ken Burns' PBS series. Shelby was a novelist by trade who spent 20 years of his life researching and writing this work. The result is a spectacular account of the conflict that is as engrossing as it is detailed.
Gotta agree.. I wish this had been a Ken Burns film.. I think it would've been much better... And Ken Burns would've made it a 3 hour movie instead of a mini series.. This was one of those topics that didn't need 3 nights to tell us basically what we already knew.. But I will check out the Shelby Foote series you suggested.. Good job on the general production.. But the guy playing Grant looked more like a Livery store owner dressed as a union soldier...
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I had learned a lot from that outstanding documentary.  Grant was the first 3 star general. A master battlefield strategist who saved the union earned him the rank of Lieutenant General. Son of an abolitionist who became the first civil rights president. Buried in history imo.
Grant's bust would (should) be on Mt. Rushmore if it weren't for a guy named Lincoln.
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Well done, but took me to nite 3 to learn anything new.
If you are even slightly into the Civil War and have not read Shelby Foote's trilogy, then do your self a favor and read it. Shelby was the interesting grey beard commentator with the slow southern drawl in Ken Burns' PBS series. Shelby was a novelist by trade who spent 20 years of his life researching and writing this work. The result is a spectacular account of the conflict that is as engrossing as it is detailed.
Well done, but took me to nite 3 to learn anything new.
If you are even slightly into the Civil War and have not read Shelby Foote's trilogy, then do your self a favor and read it. Shelby was the interesting grey beard commentator with the slow southern drawl in Ken Burns' PBS series. Shelby was a novelist by trade who spent 20 years of his life researching and writing this work. The result is a spectacular account of the conflict that is as engrossing as it is detailed.
I have it in paperback and a signed Easton Press leatherbound edition. Most readable of all history books I have ever read. So many well tied together "eyewitness" accounts brings it all alive.
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Well done, but took me to nite 3 to learn anything new.
If you are even slightly into the Civil War and have not read Shelby Foote's trilogy, then do your self a favor and read it. Shelby was the interesting grey beard commentator with the slow southern drawl in Ken Burns' PBS series. Shelby was a novelist by trade who spent 20 years of his life researching and writing this work. The result is a spectacular account of the conflict that is as engrossing as it is detailed.
Gotta agree.. I wish this had been a Ken Burns film.. I think it would've been much better... And Ken Burns would've made it a 3 hour movie instead of a mini series.. This was one of those topics that didn't need 3 nights to tell us basically what we already knew.. But I will check out the Shelby Foote series you suggested.. Good job on the general production.. But the guy playing Grant looked more like a Livery store owner dressed as a union soldier...
But I will check out the Shelby Foote series you suggested.
You'll be glad you did...
... and equally glad if you don't have Foote's southern drawl stuck in your head as you read it.
I swear it added days to my reading of the set.
"When you have a shared vision it is a lot easier to make unpopular decisions." - Paul DePodesta "When you win, say nothing. When you lose, say less." - Paul Brown Complete 2017 Browns Board Mock: http://thebrownsboard.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=46196 -
You'll be glad you did...
... and equally glad if you don't have Foote's southern drawl stuck in your head as you read it.
I swear it added days to my reading of the set.
Yes, but he did so well imitating Nathan Bedford Forrest's great grand-daughter with her negative reaction to Foote's comparing her forefather's genius with that of Lincoln, "Ma famaly does not particulahly approve of Mista Lincoln." Or words to that affect if I recall correctly.
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You'll be glad you did...
... and equally glad if you don't have Foote's southern drawl stuck in your head as you read it.
I swear it added days to my reading of the set.
Yes, but he did so well imitating Nathan Bedford Forrest's great grand-daughter with her negative reaction to Foote's comparing her forefather's genius with that of Lincoln, "Ma famaly does not particulahly approve of Mista Lincoln." Or words to that affect if I recall correctly.
Yes, but he did so well imitating Nathan Bedford Forrest's great grand-daughter with her negative reaction to Foote's comparing her forefather's genius with that of Lincoln, "Ma famaly does not particulahly approve of Mista Lincoln." Or words to that affect if I recall correctly.
Wasn't Nathan Bedford Forrest the founder of the KKK? Â So who gives a flying fuck what she or her family think of Mr. Lincoln?
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Yes, but he did so well imitating Nathan Bedford Forrest's great grand-daughter with her negative reaction to Foote's comparing her forefather's genius with that of Lincoln, "Ma famaly does not particulahly approve of Mista Lincoln." Or words to that affect if I recall correctly.
Wasn't Nathan Bedford Forrest the founder of the KKK? Â So who gives a flying fuck what she or her family think of Mr. Lincoln?
Wasn't Nathan Bedford Forrest the founder of the KKK? Â So who gives a flying fuck what she or her family think of Mr. Lincoln?
No one. I'm just pointing out the voice he used with a grin when describing that interview he had with her in researching his trilogy. He was basically saying that
KKK mentality was still being passed on to later generations. And I can tell you for certain it still is. I no long play racquetball with one of my friends when he toldÂ
a retired military black player who had just joined us that he should go back to his own country (a multiple generation American so this is his country). None of the severalÂ
other black players we participate with will play with him any more and neither will I. Not surprisingly he came from that other Texas-deep east Texas. I'm sure TourÂ
could verify how backward most are there still.
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