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Non-Fiction

KG

(28,766 posts) Thu Dec 24, 2020, 06:03 AM Dec 2020

sorry. had to be said.

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Bruce Catton over Shelby Foote any day. & twicet on the weekends (Original Post) KG Dec 2020 OP

I must get an example of Catton's voice, because the only thing OnDoutside Dec 2020 #1

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1. I must get an example of Catton's voice, because the only thing

Thu Dec 24, 2020, 06:17 AM

Dec 2020

Foote had, beyond his myth building capabilities, is that southern drawl.

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2. Loved Shelby Foote's narrations.... He could paint pictures with his voice...

Thu Dec 24, 2020, 08:57 AM

Dec 2020

I think he enriched Burns documentary about the Civil War with his "voice of the south"...
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