Though the author tells of being a Civil War buff since childhood, he nonetheless retains the freshness of an outsider's perspective (acting as a sort of foreign correspondent at home). I went through a half dozen books last night at the online library looking for something good to read. This is why it works effectively as audio: it comes across more as a personal adventure than a polemical historical analysis. In Confederates in the Attic, journalist Tony Horwitz scours Civil War battlegrounds adjacent to shopping malls and sends dispatches to his fellow Americans. Tony Horwitz, Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the.

Horowitz's rambling first-person narrative takes constant sidetracks and is made human with its self-effacing descriptions of his own foibles. Robert, Jr., was a military instructor at the U.S. He also mulls over his own theories about the lasting legacy of the war, arguing that it was as much a cultural battle between the mores of North and South as a military one. New York: Pantheon Books/Vintage Departures. Stonewall Jackson given by the Sons of the Confederacy. Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by. As part of a self-imposed year-long ''scheme'' to examine the war's contemporary meaning, he does such things as visit a birthday party for Gen. He spent time among the hard-core buffs, the groups who put on period clothes and ''re-enact'' battles. turf to tackle the subject of our own Civil War and how its history is actively replayed by scores of grown men.

Horowitz, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign war correspondent, returned to his native U.S.

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