Confederates in the Attic Book Reviews

AUTHOR
Tony Horwitz
SCORE
4.5
TOTAL RATINGS
211

Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz Book Summary

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefield visitors, and fans of history resurrect the ghosts of the Lost Cause through ritual and remembrance.  

"The freshest book about divisiveness in America that I have read in some time. This splendid commemoration of the war and its legacy ... is an eyes–open, humorously no–nonsense survey of complicated Americans." —The New York Times Book Review

For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War—reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners, history fans, students of current racial conflicts, and more—this ten-state adventure is part travelogue, part social commentary and always good-humored. 
 
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. 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 the new 'classrooms, courts, country bars' where the past and the present collide, often in explosive ways.

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Book Name Confederates in the Attic
Genre U.S. History
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Language English
E-Book Size 7.51 MB

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Great read!. Loved it. My only complaint is that Tony Horwitz successfully raised more questions and personal awareness that he answered or enlightened.

Must read!. I read this book a few years ago during a road trip to the south and it was so good that I have thought of it many time since. Gives insight and information without being boring or 'teachy'. Very entertaining read

Captivating, and humorous, a new perspective on the war!. I am a USC history major and had to read This book for class and am so glad I did! This book is a refreshing new perspective of the war and it's heritage and the battle that still rages on! A must read

Old times there are not forgotten. For anyone who has stared at the Brady black and whites, who has stood in the treeline as Pickett's men did an instant before stepping out onto that gentle upslope to oblivion, who has sensed the genteel gnaw of...what?..."otherness" south of the Mason-Dixon, read this book. Period.

Confedrates in the attic. I greatly enjoyed this book and it made me fan of Tony Horwitz. He is able to combine humor with factual history in a very readable manor.

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Summary of Confederates in the Attic by Tony Horwitz

The Confederates in the Attic book written by Tony Horwitz was published on 03 March 1998, Tuesday in the U.S. History category. A total of 211 readers of the book gave the book 4.5 points out of 5.

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