reading shelby foote

I’m a slow reader.  But now I’m 75 pages into Foote’s The Civil War: A Narrative (vol. 1).  Awesomeness, generally.  He starts slow and builds up the worlds of the major players — Davis and Lincoln.  Shows Davis weeping in the Senate; Lincoln whooping-up on a ragtag gang leader.  Davis slinging a blade right alongside his father’s slaves; Lincoln straight and sober as a chord of lumber on a bright afternoon, telling his partner that he’s off to be president, and please not to drink too much.  It shifts from this personal sticky kind of character-oriented history into movements of thousands and quick snapshots of watermelon chomping Southern generals, etc., but still really really good so far.  Never cared to know a whole lot about the Civil War before.  Foote’s book makes me interested.