In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. With Spying on the South, the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. The New York Times-bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz.
Tony Horwitz’s new book, Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide, is available now.ĭownload Spying on the South Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of 'hardcore' reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war sparked by the killing of a white man who brandishes a rebel flag at Andersonville, he finds that the prison's commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero and in the book's climax, Horwitz takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge, an eccentric pilgrim who dubs their odyssey the 'Civil Wargasm.' Written with Horwitz's signature blend of humor, history, and hard-nosed journalism, Confederates in the Attic brings alive old battlefields and the new 'classrooms, courts, country bars' where the past and the present collide, often in explosive ways.
The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance. Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. 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. National Bestseller For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War - reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners, history fans, students of current racial conflicts, and more - this ten-state adventure is part travelogue, part social commentary and always good-humored. Download Confederates in the Attic Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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