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 Posted: Mon Feb 13th, 2012 06:46 pm
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Mana: 
 Foote did an excellent job with 'history as literature'.

still, he was a man of his age writing his magnum opus during the centennial and the heyday of the civil rights movement.

his words about andersonville and his weaving of african-americans into the narrative are clues to his time and audience...