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"I need no warrant for being, and no word of sanction upon my being. I am the warrant and the sanction."
- Ayn Rand,
Anthem,
1946
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| | Confederates in the Attic:
Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
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| | by Tony Horwitz
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ZIN Product Number: 10182217
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 406 pages
Publisher: Random House, Incorporated
ISBN: 067975833X
Release Date: Jan 3, 1999
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
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.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
I loved this book.
-- Fred, a architect from columbus ohio., April 28, 2000
Great Book!!!!!!!
-- Jenny, June 30, 2000
A Walk with the Ghosts of Gray
-- Karen, a medical records tech., March 13, 2000
Good, but burdened by stereotypes
-- reader, April 1, 2000
Laugh Out Loud Tour de Force
-- Sally Eastman, an avid reader of fiction, January 22, 2001
Also Recommended: Cloudsplitter by Russell Banks
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
The Pulitzer Prize-winning Horwitz humorously illustrates the continuing presence of pro-Confederate sentiments in The South where the Civil War is still being fought, this time in court rooms, class rooms, and battle reenactments
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I would as soon tramp barefoot through a snake-infested Ecuadorian marsh as spend a week in period costume, in the undiluted company of Robert Lee Hodge on a Civil Wargasm -- and Horwitz deserve some sort of medal for valor on the reader's behalf as he immerses himself in a society that most readers would instinctively shun. Character who invite the cartoon, or the lampoon, are treated by him with exemplary gentleness, in the round. His version of the South is solidly credible throughout -- and seriously bad news for the rest of America.
— Author of Bad Land —Jonathan Raban
The enthusiasm, opinions, and beliefs of latter-day Confederates don't get much mainstream exposure these days, but Tony Horwitz portrays them with accuracy, humor, and respect. This is a serious book on a serious subject, but it often made me laught out loud. Like some characters from a Walker Percy novel, Horwitz keeps finding himself in utterly absurd settings, with colorful, even bizarre, companions.
— Author of Whistling Dixie: Dispatches from the South —John Shelton Reed
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 hardcore 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 in't over yet inthe South, read Confederates in the Attic to find out.
— Author of Battle Cry of Freedom —James McPherson
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