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Work of non fiction by pulitzer prize winning author tony horwitz. Some passages of the book read now like a document from the distant past. He won the 1995 pulitzer prize for national reporting for his accounts of working conditions in low wage jobs. I have been a reader of civil war books for over 50 years and none ever made me laugh like this one did and none covered modern.

Dispatches from the unfinished civil war was published in 1998. Horwitz explores his deep interest in the american civil war and investigates the ties in the united states among citizens to a war that ended more than 130 years previously. If you like confederates in the attic you might like similar books. Hitchhiking through the australian outback to be reissued this year by vintage.

Confederates in the attic by tony horwitz pantheon books new york 1998 27 50. He later wrote for the new yorker on the middle east before becoming an author of nonfiction books. Confederates in the attic dispatches from the unfinished civil war. His awards include the pulitzer prize for national reporting in 1995.

Log in more to explore. Free shipping on qualifying offers. Dispatches from the unfinished civil war from the world s largest community of readers. 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.

Musty as its title sounds and fetid as its author got marching. Diverse groups have immersed themselves in the literature and regalia of the war. Confederates in the attic is horwitz s third book following the national bestseller baghdad without a map and other misadventures in arabia and one for the road. Tony horwitz s greatest book confederates in the attic seems even more crucial today.

In confederates in the attic author tony horwitz sets out to discover the commonality of our civil war lust. Confederates in the attic 1998 is a work of non fiction by pulitzer prize winning author tony horwitz. About confederates in the attic. Goodreads members who.

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