Confederates in the attic is a non fiction book written by pulitzer prize winning journalist tony horwitz the book is a mixture of ethnography the study of a specific group of people in a specific place and travel writing where horwitz attempts to dive deeply into his childhood fascination for the american civil war by traveling through the deep south visiting confederate.
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Confederates in the attic by tony horwitz is a 1998 nonfiction book about the continued influence of the civil war and the confederacy on the american south.
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Confederates in the attic by tony horwitz validates the significance of the civil war in that it stresses its lasting effect on the american psyche.
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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.
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Horwitz goes on to describe his grandfather s strange fascination with the american civil war.
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Confederates in the attic 1998 is a work of non fiction by pulitzer prize winning author tony horwitz.
Horwitz states since my appearance in the carolinas scarcely a day has gone without some scrap of the common war showing up in the paper 71.
Kentucky dying for dixie chapter 5 finds horwitz in the small kentucky county of guthrie home to both the famed writer robert penn warren and the racially motivated killing of michael westerman a white confederate sympathizer who was shot dead a by a group of.
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South carolina shades of dim part 4 spotlights on horwitz s time in columbia the capital city of south carolina and the seething discussions on how the south should deal with recalling its legacy and confederate images.
Confederates in the attic horwitz opens confederates in the attic with an anecdote about his grandfather isaac moses perski who fled czarist russia as a teenage draft dodger 3 on his way to arriving in manhattan and beginning a new life as an immigrant in america.
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The author painted on his attic roof events in the civil war confederate.
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