Jon Meacham on Charlie Rose expressed his disdain for Shelby Foote, sneering at him as a Southern White. Meacham said Robert E. Lee pretended to be an aristocrat but that he and the Southern cavaliers were just want a be aristocrats.
http://www.charlierose.com/view/interview/11644
http://www.randomhouse.com/book/215557/the-civil-war-trilogy-box-set-by-shelby-foote
When 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 The Iliad.”
Meacham couldn’t stop the racist Greeks from defending their existence but he can stop the Whites from having theirs.
http://www.chapter16.org/content/novelist-historian
An Internet search turned up the following on Nathan Bedford Forrest tying his monument to the Jena 6 and nooses.
http://makenolaws.com/documents/Remembering_Forrest.pdf
“Remembering Nathan Bedford Forrest:
White Supremacy and the Memphis Monument
by
Tim Bounds”
The search was
Jon Meacham Shelby Foote “Southern Whites”
Other results
http://www.archive.org/stream/southinbuildingo13soutiala/southinbuildingo13soutiala_djvu.txt
== quote
MARY CUSTIS LEE
CHAPTER
No. 1884
PRESENTED TO THE
UNIVERSITY OF
CALIFORNIA
Los ANGELES
JUNE 3, 19528
To THE STUDENT OF OUR
NATION’S HISTORY, THERE
IS NO CHAPTER MORE INTER-
ESTING OR THRILLING, THAN
THE STORY OF THE SOUTH
AND THE GREAT ROLE IT HAS
PLAYED IN OUR NATIONAL
DEVELOPMENT.
THE SOUTH in the
Building of the Nation
HISTORY OF THE
SOUTHERN STATES
DESIGNED to RECORD the
SOUTH’S PART in the MAKING
of the AMERICAN NATION;
to PORTRAY the CHARACTER
and GENIUS, to CHRONICLE
the ACHIEVEMENTS and PROG
RESS and to ILLUSTRATE the
LIFE and TRADITIONS of the
SOUTHERN PEOPLE
VOLUME XIII
INDEX AND READING COURSES
BY
J. WALKER McSPADDEN
The SOUTHERN
PUBLICATION SOCIETY
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA
119935
COPYRIGHT, 1913
BY
THE SOUTHERN HISTORICAL PUBLICATION SOCIBTT
== end quote
http://www.archive.org/details/southinbuildingo13soutiala
May 1, 2011 at 11:50 pm
Just another scallywag, although it looks like he was from a privileged background. Maybe he thinks of himself and his forebears as the real aristocrats, or is envious of the Cavaliers, et al.
He’s a CFR member, has won awards from the ADL — what more do we need to know?
-VA