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January's book club selection. Hopefully it'll be more engaging than last month's, which I never finished!
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One chapter in and I am hooked. I think this book might be that rare thing: a book I would recommend to my husband. I do find it odd, however, that I am so engaged by it, since I feel no connection to its basic premise: “why did this war still obsess so many Americans 130 years after Appomattox?”. I am not the least bit obsessed with the Civil War; I’m barely even interested! But I’m intere ...more
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One chapter in and I am hooked. I think this book might be that rare thing: a book I would recommend to my husband. I do find it odd, however, that I am so engaged by it, since I feel no connection to its basic premise: “why did this war still obsess so many Americans 130 years after Appomattox?”. I am not the least bit obsessed with the Civil War; I’m barely even interested! But I’m intere ...more
Jun 25, 2008
Jen
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zz2008-read,
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other-realms,
humor,
history,
the-south,
war-related
It probably shouldn't have, but this book blew my mind. Horwitz writes of his visits to Civil War sites in the late 1990s and of the people he encounters there, many of whom still feel strongly about the War Between the States and the erstwhile Confederacy. He spends time with the Sons and the Daughters of the Confederacy, Civil War reenactors, the "hardcore" self-proclaimed "living historians", advocates for flying the Confederate flag at state houses, the last living (at the time) Confederate
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