Confederates In The Attic by Tony Horwitz


ISBN
9780733608520
Published
Binding
Hardcover
Pages
416

Dispatches From the Unfinished Civil War

Obsessed with his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tony Horwitz embarks on a search for people and places still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance.

In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of "hardcore" re-enactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war sparked by the killing of a white man who brandishes a rebel flat; at Adersonville, he finds that the prison's commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero; and in the book's climax, Horwitz takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge, an eccentric pilgrim who dubs their odyssey the "Civil Wargasm".

Written with Horwitz's signature blend of humour, 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. Poignant and picaresque, haunting and hilarious, it speaks to anyone who has ever felt drawn to the mythic South and to the dark romance of the Civil War.
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