![]() ![]() His vivid, personal account is a mesmerizing review of history from a novel and entertaining angle. Confederates in the Attic is a non-fiction book written by Pulitzer-Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz. ![]() Horwitz wrote this book shortly after settling in Virginia following several. Horwitz (Baghdad Without a Map), on a year-long exploration of these groups throughout the South, participated in some of their activities and came to know the lives and personalities of several of their members. The title Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War carries two meanings in Tony Horwitz’s show more content At the beginning of the book, Horowitz sets up the background for his spellbinding interest in the American Civil War. The powerful hold of that conflict on a diverse assortment of Americans translates into more than 60,000 books on the subject, according to the author for some Civil War buffs it is an obsession that generates a startling number of clubs whose members regularly reenact the battles, playing out once again the logistics, problems, hardships, leading characters, losses and victories. And when Horwitz was a child, his father read him tales of the Civil War instead of fairy tales and children's literature. ![]() You dont have to be a Civil War buff or Daughter of the Confederacy to enjoy it. ![]() The first book the author's Russian grandfather bought on emigrating to the U.S., though he neither read nor spoke English, was about the Civil War, a book he still pored over into his 90s. This book is for anyone who wants to understand the mind of the South today. ![]()
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