Tony Horowitz Confederates In The Attic

March 1998 in confederates in the attic journalist tony horwitz scours civil war battlegrounds adjacent to shopping malls and sends dispatches to his fellow americans that sound less like news bulletins than wisecracks in a musical comedy.

Tony horowitz confederates in the attic. Confederates in the attic 1998 is a work of non fiction by pulitzer prize winning author tony horwitz. Reporting from boston tony horwitz a pulitzer prize winning journalist and the best selling author of confederates in the attic has died. 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. I was a civil war re enactor in junior high and high school and i particularly appreciated his chapter on that very strange hobby.

But it s confederates in the attic. He reports on attitudes on the civil war and how it is discussed and taught as well as attitudes about race. Dispatches from the unfinished american civil war which horwitz published in 1998 that s beloved by historians educators and as far as i can tell everyone. 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. A farb of the heart. Dispatches from the unfinished civil war. Horwitz explores his deep interest in the american civil war and investigates the ties in the united states among citizens to a war that ended more than 130 years previously.