Tony Horowitz Confederates In The Attic

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.

Tony horowitz 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. A farb of the heart. 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. Horwitz died monday of apparent cardiac.

Reporting from boston tony horwitz a pulitzer prize winning journalist and the best selling author of confederates in the attic has died. But it s confederates in the attic. Confederates in the attic. 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.

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