Confederates in the Attic
Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
Recommended by Robert Maguire, and 1 others. See all reviewsRanked #8 in Civil War, Ranked #10 in Customs — see more rankings.
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... more
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... more
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Robert Maguire Please take this sad news as an opportunity to read, or re-read, Confederates in the Attic. It is a remarkable book that is sadly still very relevant 20 years later https://t.co/zAyPfq8xBK (Source)
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- #71 in American History
- #35 in National Parks
- #79 in Native American History
- #57 in Tennessee
- #47 in Travelogue
- #59 in US History
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