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He passed away last night, at the age of 88.<\/a><\/p>\n

You know him, of course, as a Civil War historian and narrator of the Ken Burns series. Some of us also know him as one of the late Walker Percy’s closest friends – they met when they were teenagers in Greenville, Mississippi, Walker having moved there, in with his uncle William Alexander Percy<\/a>, after the death, first of his father, and then his mother. Part of their correspondence is preserved in this book<\/a>, well worth a read:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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