Confederates in the Attic

“The freshest book about divisiveness in America that I have read in some time. This splendid commemoration of the war and its legacy … is an eyes–open, humorously no–nonsense survey of complicated Americans.” —Roy Blount Jr., New York Times Book Review

“In this sparkling book Horwitz explores some of our culture’s myths with the irreverent glee of a small boy hurling snowballs at a beaver hat…. An important contribution to understanding how echoes of the Civil War have never stopped.” —USA Today

Horwitz’s chronicle of his odyssey through the nether and ethereal worlds of Confederatemania is by turns amusing, chilling, poignant, and always fascinating. He has found the Lost Cause and lived to tell the tale a wonderfully piquant tale of hard-core reenactors, Scarlett O’Hara look-alikes, and people who reshape Civil War history to suit the way they wish it had come out. If you want to know why the war isn’t over yet in the South, read Confederates in the Attic to find out.” —James McPherson, author of Battle Cry of Freedom

TONY HORWITZ is a native of Washington, D.C., and a graduate of Brown University and Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism. As a newspaper reporter he spent a decade overseas, mainly covering conflicts in Africa, the Middle East, and the Balkans for The Wall Street Journal. Returning to the U.S., he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and wrote for The New Yorker before becoming a full-time author. In addition to Confederates in the Attic, his books include the national and New York Times bestsellers, Blue Latitudes, Baghdad Without a Map and A Voyage Long and Strange. His latest book, Midnight Rising, was named a New York Times Notable Book. Horwitz has also been a fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University and a history columnist for Smithsonian magazine. He is currently the president of the Society of American Historians. Horwitz lives in West Tisbury, Massachusetts with his wife Geraldine Brooks, their sons, dogs and alpacas.

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