Shelby Foote Net Worth

Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. net worth is
$14 Million

Shelby Dade Foote, Jr. Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family

Shelby Foote was born on November 17, 1916 in Greenville, Mississippi, USA as Shelby Dade Foote Jr. He is known for his work on The Civil War (1990), The Making of 'Gettysburg' (1993) and The Congress (1988). He was married to Gwyn Rainer, Peggy DeSommes and Tess Lavery. He died on June 27, 2005 in Memphis, Tennessee, USA.

Full Name	Shelby Dade Foote, Jr.
Net Worth	$14 Million
Date Of Birth	November 17, 1916
Died	2005-06-27
Place Of Birth	Greenville, Mississippi, USA
Profession	Miscellaneous Crew, Writer
Spouse	Marguerite "Peggy" Desommes
Nicknames	Shelby Foote, Foote, Shelby
Star Sign	Scorpio

#	Quote
1	God is the greatest dramatist.
2	The Marines had a great time with me. They said if you used to be a captain, you might make a pretty good Marine.
3	People want to know why the South is so interested in the Civil War. I had maybe, it's a rough guess, about fifty fistfights in my life. Out of those fifty fistfights, the ones that I had the most vivid memory of were the ones I lost. I think that's one reason why the South remembers the war more than the North does.
4	Plot makes a story move under its own power. And to neglect plotting as a device of history is a serious mistake. Among American historians, probably my favorite is Francis Parkman. Parkman's a wonderful historian. I had not read him until late in life to realize how good he was.
5	History is a pretty wretched subject to study in school. As I remember it, it was terrible. They required me to memorize so many things. There was a Treaty of Utrecht, and it has thirteen steps. I don't know one of those steps. But it had thirteen.
6	It would be nice to talk to Lincoln. He'd really talk to you. Maybe run circles around you. Not like others who you figure would be mostly rhetoric.
7	Right now I'm thinking a good deal about emancipation. One of our sins was slavery. Another was emancipation. It's a paradox. In theory, emancipation was one of the glories of our democracy-and it was. But the way it was done led to tragedy. Turning four million people loose with no jobs or trades or learning. And then, in 1877, for a few electoral votes, just abandoning them entirely. A huge amount of pain and trouble resulted. Everybody in America is still paying for it.
8	Picking any one moment or place is a romantic approach to history that I'm uneasy about. Singling out any one event from history as all-important. Every event is led up to by so many others, small and large. Besides, what you think about and where you'd want to go keeps changing.

#	Fact
1	Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume 7, 2003-2005, pages 188-190. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2007.
2	Children: daughter Margaret (second marriage) and son Huger (first marriage).
3	After being discharged from the Army during World War II, he joined the Marines. He never saw combat.
4	Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, Vol. 131, pages 159-162. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
5	Attended the University of North Carolina from 1935 to 1937.
6	He has been awarded three Guggenheim fellowships.
7	Foote remained relatively unknown before his role in Ken Burns' "The Civil War", a PBS documentary series first broadcast in 1990 which made him a cultural icon. Since that event, Foote has become widely viewed as an authority on the Civil War, and more generally, as a representative of an era and region whose place continues to be central to our country's understanding of itself.
8	He joined the Mississippi National Guard as a protest to Hitler's war. His writings were interrupted when the guard was mobilized by draft in the year 1940. By 1942, Foote was commissioned and promoted to Captain. However, while at a base in Northern Ireland, Shelby was accused of insubordination because he was in Belfast without leave, visiting the Irish girl whom he later married. In 1944, Shelby Foote was court martialed and dismissed from the service.
9	Historian and author. His 3-volume set "The Civil War: A Narrative" is one of the standard reference works on the subject.

Miscellaneous

Title	Year	Status	Character
The Making of 'Gettysburg'	1993	Video documentary commentary
The Civil War	1990	TV Mini-Series documentary consultant - 9 episodes

Writer

Title	Year	Status	Character
Memphis	1992	TV Movie novel "September September"

Thanks

Title	Year	Status	Character
Glory	1989	special thanks

Self

Title	Year	Status	Character
Tell About the South: Voices in Black and White	1998	TV Movie documentary	Himself
Great Drives	1996	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself (volume 1: Highway 61)
Baseball	1994	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself
Booknotes	1994	TV Series	Himself
The Making of 'Gettysburg'	1993	Video documentary	Himself - Historian / Novelist
The Civil War	1990	TV Mini-Series documentary	Himself - Writer / Various / Himself / ...
The Congress	1988	TV Movie documentary voice