Description:
Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, author Tony
Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall
by America's greatest conflict. In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of
"hardcore" re-enactors 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. 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.
Our panel:
Misty Young
Kay Fahey
Pat Barker
Links
for this book:
BookPage
Salon.com
Also
by this author:
Blue
Latitudes; Henry Holt & Company, Incorporated;
October 2002
Baghdad
Without a Map: And Other Misadventures in Arabia; Dutton; December
1991
One For the Road: An Outback Adventure; Vintage Books; October 1999
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