Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

A portrait of Civil War societies and the amateur historians who populate them throughout the South. Horwitz, the grandson of Russian immigrants who were obsessed with the conflict, spent a year visiting such societies to piece together his account. A "New York Times" Notable Book for 1998.

"'Confederates in the Attic' is the freshest book about divisiveness in America that I have read in some time." - Andrew Gracie (New York Times Book Review, 4/5/98)

"Horwitz's reflective odyssey uncovers a profoundly disaffected nation, where battles over the Confederate flag, virulent antigovernment sentiment, and enduring ignorance and bigotry invite some dispiriting conclusions about the prospects for black/white rapprochement." - (Kirkus, 1/15/98)

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