National Bestseller For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War -- reenactors; battlefield visitors; Confederate descendants and other Southerners; history fans; students of current racial conflicts; and more -- this ten-state adventure is part travelogue; part social commentary and always good-humored. “Splendid.†–Roy Blount; Jr.; The New York Times Book Review 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.
#111207 in Books 2013-03-25Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.10 x .80 x 6.50l; 1.40 #File Name: 0078026938496 pages
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