Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

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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.Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people 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 reenactors 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 flag at Andersonville, 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 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 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. New Download Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War [ author ] Tony Horwitz [ Kindle ePUB or eBook ] – kino-fada.fr When I was in first or second grade, I started creating books about American history World War II, the Indian Wars and, of course, the Civil War These books had no texts, only pictures extremely graphic pictures that, today, would probably get me invited to the psychiatrist s office They were constructed in a bit of genius, I might add out of large, rectangular pads of Norwest Bank forms, supplied by my dad I would take the pad and turn it upside down, using the cardboard back as a When I was in first or second grade, I started creating books about American history Wor...OK, so I m on a Civil War road trip with my Significant Other, following the official Virginia state Lee s Retreat tour and reading to him from Confederates in the Attic to pass the time The section we were reading dealt with the bigger than life owner of an old general store that he had turned into a museum of sorts I said this is really over the top Horowitz maybe exaggerated this guy to make a better story S.O said we should try to find the place and just then, we pass an OK, so I m on a Civil War road trip with my Significant Other, following the official Virginia state Lee s Retreat tour and reading to him from Confederates in the Attic to pass the time The section we were reading dealt with the bigger than life owner of an old general store that he had turned into a museum of sorts I said this is really over the top Horowitz maybe exaggerated this guy to make a better story S.O said we should try to find the place and just then, we pass an old general store SO slows the car, then backs up, and damned if the guy described in the book, Jimmy Olger, isn t sitting outside, shooting the t with some of the locals And he s MORE colorful than described it anything, Horowitz played it down a little So after being guided through his store and hearing all of his tall tales about it, we wander across the street to a hitorical house, with a marker showing it as part of the Official Lee s Retreat Tour The sign says tour gui...In Confederates in the Attic, journalist Tony Horwitz explores the ways in which the Civil War is still present in Southern culture.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 Farb, by the way, is re enactor slang for all things inauthentic I ve not always been impressed with Horwitz s books I thought Baghdad without a Map to be particularly slight , but here he really nails it For In Confederates in the Attic, journalist Tony Horwitz explores the ways in which the Civil War is still present in Southern culture.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 o...An excellent expos on the continuing history of the Civil War and the attitudes that persist More importantly it rightly links the use of the rebel flag with the modern civil rights movement and discounts its Civil War usage Horwitz also exposes the racist attitudes hidden within societies such as the Sons of Confederate Veterans who try to market themselves as legitimate and historical groups For those who have not experienced first hand the radical attitudes of these groups such as the An excellent expos on the continuing history of the Civil War and the attitudes that persist More importantly it rightly links the use of the rebel flag with the modern civil rights movement and discounts its Civil War usage Horwitz also exposes the racist attitudes hidden within societies such as the Sons of Confederate Veterans who try to market themselves as legitimate and historical groups For th...In the late 1990 s author Tony Horowitz explored the South and its relationship with the Civil War He starts with battle re enactors and moves on to visit museums and historians He covers contemporary issues, walks battlefields, reports on monuments and the feelings they evoke He meets notables and everyday people, civil rights leaders and those active in keeping southern culture alive.Horowitz holds your attention throughout You come away with the feeling that mourning and saluting the In the late 1990 s author Tony Horowitz explored the South and its relationship with the Civil War He starts with battle re enactors and moves on to visit museums and historians He covers contemporary issues, walks battlefields, reports on monuments and the feelings they evoke He meets notables and everyday people, civil rig...Tony Horwitz s grandfather was an immigrant like many before him he left his country and went to look for a new life in America Although he could neither speak nor read English when he arrived from Russia, Horwitz the elder nonetheless purchased a book a tome on the Civil War, which he continued to pore over until his death at 102 When young Tony was growing up, his father read him stories about the war instead of fairytales, which inspired him to paint a mural of the war in the attic of Tony Horwitz s grandfather was an immigrant like many before him he left his country and went to look for a new life in America Although he could neither speak nor read English when he arrived from Russia, Horwitz the elder nonetheless purchased a book a tome on t...This books was deep, if you ve never really had interest in the civil war this one is for you The author did such a great job on keeping this non biased and the way he wrote this was so good that it was never boring This is the way...I had to get this one back to the library, so I m going on memory a bit Generally, I really like this book, though I m still mystified over the reenactment craze And I m saying this as a Virginian who grew up with the Civil War, could rattle off casualty figures for various battles both North and South , called people north of the Potomac, Yankees, and who even went to a Robert E Lee High School of which there must be dozens throughout the South At some point, I just didn t care that I had to get this one back to the library, so I m going on memory a bit Generally, I really like this book, though I m still mystified over the reenactment craze And I m saying this as a Virginian who grew up with the Civil War, could rattle off casualty figures for v...I stumbled across this book by accident It s fascinating, if often depressing I ve always maintained that if reenactors were really serious about authenticity, they d issue live ammunition Nevertheless, Horwitz, whose immigrant great grandfather became obsessed with Civil War history, also caught the bug, and when they discovered a TV crew shooting a scene in the land next to their house in Maryland, decided to in...The past is dead let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations before you lies the future Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to take your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation devoutly to be wished a reunited country Jefferson Davis I don t do drugs, I do the Civil War He laughed Problem is, the Civil War s most addictive than crack, and almost as expensive 14 I asked King if there was any way for white The past is dead let it bury its dead, its hopes and its aspirations before you lies the future Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to take your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a con...

Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
  • English
  • 24 September 2018
  • Paperback
  • 406 pages
  • 067975833X
  • Tony Horwitz
  • Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War