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Confederates in the Attic

Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

By Tony Horwitz

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| Paperback | 9780679758334

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When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches agaiContinue

When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart.

Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance.

In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of 'hardcore' reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war sparked by the killing of a white man who brandishes a rebel flag; at Andersonville, he finds that the prison's commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero; and in the book's climax, Horwitz takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge, an eccentric pilgrim who dubs their odyssey the 'Civil Wargasm.'

Written with Horwitz's signature blend of humor, history, and hard-nosed journalism, Confederates in the Attic brings alive old battlefields and new ones 'classrooms, courts, country bars' where the past and the present collide, often in explosive ways. Poignant and picaresque, haunting and hilarious, it speaks to anyone who has ever felt drawn to the mythic South and to the dark romance of the Civil War.

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  • Confederates in the Attic Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War By Tony Horwitz

    In Confederates in the Attic, journalist Tony Horwitz scours Civil War battlegrounds adjacent to shopping malls and sends dispatches to his fellow Americans that sound less like news bulletins than wisecracks in a musical comedy. After nine years in ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010

  • Confederates in the Attic By Tony Horwitz

    Prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz covered his boyhood bedroom walls with a mural of Civil War battles. Years later, wanting to understand the enormous, enduring appeal of this bloodiest of all American wars, Horwitz set out on a two-year t ... (read full critics)

    bookpage published on Wed, 15 Sep 2010

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    It started out very interesting... but the fire fizzled out...

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  • English Books
  • Paperback 432 Pages
  • Edition: Reprint
  • ISBN-10: 067975833X
  • ISBN-13: 9780679758334
  • Publisher: Vintage
  • Pub date: Feb 22, 1999
  • Dimensions: 1355 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
  • Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette and Others
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