false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1169200704m/38855.jpg 38855 8 Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tony Horwitz returned from years of traipsing through war zones as a foreign correspondent only to find that his childhood obsession with the Civil War had caught up with him. Near his house in Virginia, he happened to encounter people who reenact the Civil War--men who dress up in period costumes and live as Johnny Rebs and Billy Yanks. Intrigued, he wound up having some odd adventures with the "hardcores," the fellows who try to immerse themselves in the war, hoping to get what they lovingly term a "period rush." Horwitz spent two years reporting on why Americans are still so obsessed with the war, and the ways in which it resonates today. In the course of his work, he made a sobering side trip to cover a murder that was provoked by the display of the Confederate flag, and he spoke to a number of people seeking to honor their ancestors who fought for the Confederacy. Horwitz has a flair for odd details that spark insights, and <i>Confederates in the Attic</i> is a thoughtful and entertaining book that does much to explain America's continuing obsession with the Civil War. 3963325 1998 Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War total:2288|5:776|4:1030|3:394|2:69|1:15| 2288 9351 3070 448 4 8 false false Sun Jun 17 09:11:02 -0700 2007 Tue Jul 17 11:33:43 -0700 2007 Confederates in the Attic, journalist Tony Horwitz explores the ways in which the Civil War is still present in Southern culture.

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After winning a Pulitzer for his journalism covering the wars in Bosnia and the Gulf, he returned home to seek out the stories of the wa...more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jul 15 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Thu Jul 16 06:59:21 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 17 20:51:22 -0700 2009 A reporter who spent time in Bosnia and Iraq decides to take a trip through the American South and see why it just can't get over its own Civil War.

The book's just plain funny, with re-enactors who smother themselves with bacon grease and practice rigorous weight-loss regimes to pe...more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri May 22 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed May 20 04:52:32 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 15:28:48 -0700 2009 Gone With The Wind and who recently greatly enjoyed Jean Edward Smith's Grant, I read through Horwitz's travelogue wondering the same things he did: why did parts of the South still cling so strongly to the Civil War?...more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 31 09:19:42 -0800 2009 Mon Feb 09 09:29:39 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Sep 23 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Sep 16 11:51:26 -0700 2009 Sat Sep 26 20:55:50 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Mon Apr 20 11:54:48 -0700 2009 Thu Apr 30 18:36:10 -0700 2009 1
Horwitz travels across the South to the major battlefields of the Civil War an...more...]]> 2 0 false false Sat Nov 07 18:47:53 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 07 18:57:51 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon May 04 21:51:44 -0700 2009 Thu May 21 09:55:21 -0700 2009
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