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.
Confederates in the attic publisher.
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.
Poignant and picaresque haunting and hilarious it speaks to anyone who has ever felt drawn to the mythic south and to the dark.
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.
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.
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.