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The Horton Foote Review: The Journal of the Horton Foote Society

The Horton Foote Review: The Journal of the Horton Foote Society

Scot Lahaie

The Journal of the Horton Foote Society Scot Lahaie. Scot Lahaie (Editor) is Assistant Professor and Director of Theater at Gardner- Webb University in Boiling Springs, North Carolina. He holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Stage Directing and a ...
Horton Foote: A Literary Biography

Horton Foote: A Literary Biography

Charles S. Watson

Throughout, Watson's focus on Foote as a master playwright and his extensive use of the dramatist's unpublished correspondence make this literary biography required reading for all who admire the work of Horton Foote.
Vernon Early

Vernon Early

Horton Foote

THE STORY: VERNON EARLY revisits American life in Horton Foote's fictional town of Harrison, Texas, during the 1950s.
Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood

Farewell: A Memoir of a Texas Childhood

Horton Foote

Now for the first time, in Farewell, Foote turns to prose to tell his own story and the stories of the real people who have inspired his characters.
Orphans' Home: The Voice and Vision of Horton Foote

Orphans' Home: The Voice and Vision of Horton Foote

Laurin Porter

In comparing the cycle with the works of William Faulkner and Eugene O'Neill, Porter positions Foote at the intersection of southern literature and American drama.
Horton Foote: A Casebook

Horton Foote: A Casebook

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... with the town becoming a kind of extended family. As in Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha saga, Foote's cycle extends beyond the story of the Robedauxs and Harrison, Texas, to the entire South, tapping finally 112 Laurin Porter LAURIN PORTER.
Conversations with Shelby Foote

Conversations with Shelby Foote

Shelby Foote

I have another aunt. Katherine. her older sister, who's paralytic and in a nursing home in Greenville, and that's all. Jones: What about the govemor in the 1850s. Henry Stuart Foote, is he related? Foote: He's a distant cousin, not close kin.
William Henry Foote Letter

William Henry Foote Letter

William Henry Foote

Letter from William Henry Foote, Romney, W. Va., to Brother Brown relating to Foote's views on African American education and on religious issues of the Presbyterians and Methodists.
Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian

Shelby Foote: Novelist and Historian

Robert L. Phillips Jr.

"Talk with Shelby Foote," New York Times Book Review 27 April 1952, p. 16. Reprinted in Conversations with Shelby Foote, edited by William C. Carter, pp. 5– 7. Jackson and London: University Press of Mississippi, 1989. Carter, William C.
Henry Stuart Foote in California Politics, 1854-1857

Henry Stuart Foote in California Politics, 1854-1857

John Denton Carter

Foote was a former governor of Mississippi who moved to California to practice law.
The Civil War Volume I: Fort Sumter to Perryville

The Civil War Volume I: Fort Sumter to Perryville

Shelby Foote

Fort Sumter to Perryville Shelby Foote. T H E C I V IL W A R A Warrative 1 Fort Sumter to Perryville SHELBY FOOTE $o P I M L I C () Prologue — The Opponents IT WAS A Monday in Washington, Title Page.
Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies

Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies

Warren James Belasco

... Open Ice The Tim Horton Story (Toronto: Penguin Books, 1994); and Lori Horton and Tim Griggs. In Loving Memory. A Tribute to Tim Horton (Toronto: ECW Press, 1997). Roy MacGregor, The Home Team: Fathers, Sons and Hockey ...
Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies

Food Nations: Selling Taste in Consumer Societies

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The Tim Horton Story (Toronto: Penguin Books, 1994); and Lori Horton and Tim Griggs, In Loving Memory, A Tribute to Tim Horton (Toronto: ECW Press, 1997). Roy MacGregor, The Home Team Fathers, Sons and Hockey (Toronto: Penguin ...
Tournament

Tournament

Shelby Foote

Tournament is a brilliant novel of the post-Civil War South, replete with Proustian and Faulknerian overtones. Many of the characters that appear in subsequent novels by Shelby Foote come onto the scene for the first time in this work.
The Mississippi Encyclopedia

The Mississippi Encyclopedia

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C. Vann Woodward's review of the third volume noted that professional historians had essentially abdicated their role as ... Missouri William C. Carter, ed., Conversations with Shelby Foote (1989); C. Stuart Chapman, Shelby Foote: A Writer's ...
The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood ...

The Gentlemen and the Roughs: Violence, Honor, and Manhood ...

Lorien Foote

In this highly original contribution to Civil War and gender history, Lorien Foote reveals that these internal battles were fought against the backdrop of manhood.
Owen Foote Frontiersman Pa

Owen Foote Frontiersman Pa

Stephanie Greene

Second grader Owen Foote is looking forward to spending time with his friend Joseph in their tree fort, until some bullies visiting his neighbor, Mrs. Gold, threaten to wreck the fort.
So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the ...

So Conceived and So Dedicated: Intellectual Life in the ...

Lorien Foote

Lorien Foote: I thank my co-editor, Kanisorn Wongsrichanalai, for approaching me with the idea for this volume and for making the process so pleasant and so easy. He is a fine historian and a good friend. I would like to thank the series editor, ...
The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December ...

The Beleaguered City: The Vicksburg Campaign, December ...

Shelby Foote

The companion volume to Stars in Their Courses, this marvelous account of Grant's siege of the Mississippi port of Vicksburg continues Foote's narrative of the great battles of the Civil War--culled from his massive three-volume history- ...
Mary Hallock Foote: Author-illustrator of the American West

Mary Hallock Foote: Author-illustrator of the American West

Darlis A. Miller

In Mary Hallock Foote, Darlis A. Willer examines the life of this gifted and spirited woman from the East as she adapted herself and her artistic vision to the West.
Reports of cases decided in the Supreme Court of the State ...

Reports of cases decided in the Supreme Court of the State ...

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I, Julia Reynolds, I this Sept. 15, 1876, turn over in the hands of my sister Savannah Horton, and her husband Dave Horton, two deeds and lot; my lot was to be sold, and they bought it in for me, and as it now stand, and stands yours until I ...
Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation ...

Black and White Manhattan: The History of Racial Formation ...

Thelma Wills Foote

Thelma Wills Foote details the arrival of the first immigrants, including African slaves, and traces encounters between the town's inhabitants of African, European, and Native American descent, showing how racial domination became key to ...
In Loving Memory: A Tribute to Tim Horton

In Loving Memory: A Tribute to Tim Horton

Lori Horton

"Sometimes we would have a team discussion and I would go over this stuff with Tim," Duff remembers. "I said Davey, me, and Mahovlich should get 60 goals a year, but a guy who's backchecking is lucky to get 20. 'I mean if we're going to play ...
The Great Collapse: Survivors of the Pulse

The Great Collapse: Survivors of the Pulse

Jeff W. Horton

Will humanity survive this catastrophic event? Join author Jeff Horton for a journey into the chaotic and perilous new world of The Great Collapse.
Double Double: How Tim Hortons Became a Canadian Way of ...

Double Double: How Tim Hortons Became a Canadian Way of ...

Douglas Hunter

Double Double is the first book to approach the company from a wide angle, from the life of its co-founder, Tim Horton; to the growth of the business under the steady hand of his friend and partner, Ron Joyce, after Horton’s death; to the ...
Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of ...

Our Sister Republics: The United States in an Age of ...

Caitlin Fitz

... 1787–1848 (Philadelphia, 1988), 49–66; James Horton and Lois Horton, In Hope of Liberty: Culture, Community, and Protest Among Northern Free Blacks, 1700–1860 (New York, 1997), 177–202; Sara Fanning, Caribbean Crossing: African ...
Critical Concepts of Canadian Business Law

Critical Concepts of Canadian Business Law

Ellis, Shane A. (Shane Alexander)

Lori Horton is the widow of former hockey star Tim Horton. Every day for the past couple of months, she's spent a lot of time at the Ontario Court's general division, listening to tales of her alcohol and drug abuse. She's had to listen to others tell ...
Texas and the Texans: or, advance of the Anglo-Americans to ...

Texas and the Texans: or, advance of the Anglo-Americans to ...

Henry Stuart Foote

or, advance of the Anglo-Americans to the south-west; including a history of leading events in Mexico, from the conquest by Fernando Cortes to the termination of the Texan revolution Henry Stuart Foote. THE TEXAN S; OB, - ADVANCE OF ...
The Big Picture: 11 Laws That Will Change Your Life

The Big Picture: 11 Laws That Will Change Your Life

Tony Horton

Part Tony Robbins, part Mehmet Oz, here is fitness guru and creator of P90X Tony Horton’s wake-up call for readers—a motivational and practical guide to creating a better life and a healthier body.

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