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 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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Horwitz goes on to describe his grandfather s strange fascination with the american civil war.
Confederates in the attic 1998 is a work of non fiction by pulitzer prize winning author tony horwitz.
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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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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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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.
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Alabama i had a dream chapter 14 is one of the few chapters that horwitz devotes entirely to the experience of african americans in the south.
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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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South carolina in the better half of the world chapter 3 finds horwitz in south carolina and it opens as he tours fort sumter the site of the first battle of the american civil war.
