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Confederates in the attic summary horwitz s exploration of the lasting effects of the civil war are rooted in his childhood when he his father and his. News author interviews critics picks and more. Dispatches from the unfinished civil war by tony horwitz. Confederates in the attic.

I was a civil war re enactor in junior high and high school and i particularly appreciated his chapter on that very strange hobby. Confederates in the attic npr coverage of confederates in the attic. Horwitz travels across the south visiting civil war reenactors historians celebrators of the confederacy descendants. Confederates in the attic by tony horwitz validates the significance of the civil war in that it stresses its lasting effect on the american psyche.

Many people in the south glorify the war and. Written with horwitz s signature blend of humor history and hard nosed journalism confederates in the attic brings alive old battlefields and new ones classrooms courts country bars where the past and the present collide often in explosive ways. Dispatches from the unfinished civil war chapter 6 virginia. A farb of the heart.

In confederates in the attic journalist tony horwitz explores the ways in which the civil war is still present in southern culture. Dispatches from the unfinished civil war by tony horwitz.