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Horwitz knows how to bring cold stone monuments alive and into fascinating relief against a living, breathing Civil War brought down the ages and nursed in our Southern fringes. Dispensing with an historian's conceit, he artlessly jumps into the world of hard-core re-enactors and searches out primary Confederate texts, first-hand accounts, and real-life characters for a sometimes humorous but always respectful exploration of an American mindset.
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
BSullivan, January 1, 2011
Horwitz knows how to bring cold stone monuments alive and into fascinating relief against a living, breathing Civil War brought down the ages and nursed in our Southern fringes. Dispensing with an historian's conceit, he artlessly jumps into the world of hard-core re-enactors and searches out primary Confederate texts, first-hand accounts, and real-life characters for a sometimes humorous but always respectful exploration of an American mindset.