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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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When prizewinning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks hes put war zones behind him. But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing frontline 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 Americas 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 crashdiet to achieve the holloweyed 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 prisons commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero; and in the books 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 Horwitzs signature blend of humor, history, and hardnosed 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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