![]() ![]() For instance, by the eve of the Civil War the sectional argument had become so far advanced that a significant number of Southerners were convinced that Yankees, like Negroes, constituted an entirely different race of people from themselves. It took nearly 250 eventful years longer for it to boil into a war, but that Dutchman’s boatload was at the bottom of it-a fact that needs to be fixed in the reader’s mind from the start. ![]() It is probably safe to say that the original impetus of the Civil War was set in motion when a Dutch trader offloaded a cargo of African slaves at Jamestown, Va., in 1619. “The worst are full of passionate intensity” Yeats wrote his short poem immediately following the catastrophe of World War I, but his thesis of a great, cataclysmic event is universal and timeless. Having acknowledged that, let me also say I have long believed there is no more concise or stirring accounting for the war than the sentiments propounded by Irish poet William Butler Yeats in “The Second Coming,” some lines of which are included in this essay. Groom's later works included a 2005 nonfiction book "1942: The Year That Tried Men's Souls," chronicling US involvement in World War II.Simmering animosities between North and South signaled an American apocalypseĪny man who takes it upon himself to explain the causes of the Civil War deserves whatever grief comes his way, regardless of his good intentions. Paramount Pictures later disclosed it earned over $600 million but claimed it ended up in the red after expenses, noted AP on Friday. ![]() His granting of movie rights earned him $350,000 (€295,000) plus 3% of the net profit. Groom himself served as an infantry soldier. Studied are the Kennedy and Johnson US presidencies, Alabama's segregationist Governor George Wallace, the Vietnam war offset by US anti-war protests, and even the advent of major tech companies. The film also earned Tom Hanks the title of best actor for portraying a slow-witted man, albeit with a great many talents, who witnesses or was involved in key 20th century events. The novel was "darker" and "richer than the movie," said professor emeritus of English Don Noble of the University of Alabama, where Groom graduated 1965. "It's more subtle and more complicated." His novel "never would have opened" as a film, he told Alabama's Tuscaloosa News, conceding "they did an excellent job." Groom, who grew up in Mobile on Alabama's Gulf coast, once told the New York Times that director Robert Zemecki's film version of "Forrest Gump" took some of the "rough edges off" his book. How 'Forrest Gump' became a cultural phenomenon Our hearts and prayers are extended to his family,'' Alabama Govenor Kay Ivey said in a statement. "While he will be remembered for creating 'Forrest Gump,' Winston Groom was a talented journalist and noted author of American history. Groom was most famous for creating "Forrest Gump." His novel was made into a six-Oscar winning film starring Tom Hanks in 1994. Winston Groom has died at the age of 77 in his Alabama home in Fairhope, the town's mayor Karin Wilson posted on social media Friday. ![]()
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