Tony Horowitz Confederates In The Attic

Horwitz died monday of apparent cardiac.

Tony horowitz confederates in the attic.

A farb of the heart. He reports on attitudes on the civil war and how it is discussed and taught as well as attitudes about race. 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. 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.

In confederates in the attic journalist tony horwitz explores the ways in which the civil war is still present in southern culture. Dispatches from the unfinished american civil war which horwitz published in 1998 that s beloved by historians educators and as far as i can tell everyone. I was a civil war re enactor in junior high and high school and i particularly appreciated his chapter on that very strange hobby. Reporting from boston tony horwitz a pulitzer prize winning journalist and the best selling author of confederates in the attic has died.

Confederates in the attic. 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. But it s confederates in the attic. Dispatches from the unfinished civil war.