Written with horwitz s signature blend of humor history and hard nosed journalism 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.
Confederates in the attic publisher.
Poignant and picaresque haunting and hilarious it speaks to anyone who has ever felt drawn to the mythic south and to the dark.
Confederates in the attic 1998 is a work of non fiction by pulitzer prize winning author tony horwitz.
His most recent work published in may 2019 is spying on the south which follows frederick law olmsted s travels from the potomac to the rio grande as an undercover.
But it s confederates in the attic.
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.
1958 tony horwitz was a pulitzer prize winning journalist and author whose books include blue latitudes confederates in the attic and baghdad without a map.