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4.08 AVERAGE
4.08 AVERAGE
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This is a delightful and compassionate look at some very rigid and hate-filled practices.
Excellent, excellent adventure story recapping civil war history. Humor, history, ritual, adventure...it’s all here!
Intriguing view of a side of America that most people don’t come across. The moral of the story is sort of refreshing, but the state of things is not. However, things can only get better. I suppose and hope.[return][return]As for the book, it gets a little stale in the middle. The narrative gets a little repetitive. Perhaps it’s supposed to be so. Regardless, an interesting read that I’m happy to have ingested.
I came to read this book after taking our first road trip south of Virginia to Asheville, North Carolina. We drove to a handful of nearby small towns, always looking for used bookstores. I picked up a few primers on the Civil War because I'm looking to better understand America in 2021. My idea was to read Confederates in the Attic last. The bookshop attendant highly recommended it and insisted I should read it first.
I'm glad I took her advice. Although this book was published more than 20 years ago, much of it resonates today and still holds. It helped me better understand many of the issues we face today and how they originated. It also explains the different positions with the Confederate monuments, the flag, and the Southern way of seeing things, their culture and why they hold to their beliefs.
I'm glad I took her advice. Although this book was published more than 20 years ago, much of it resonates today and still holds. It helped me better understand many of the issues we face today and how they originated. It also explains the different positions with the Confederate monuments, the flag, and the Southern way of seeing things, their culture and why they hold to their beliefs.
I wasn't sure what to give this one because I really liked it, but I didn't finish it (gave up trying and returned it to the library after renewing it twice). I didn't get bored, exactly...more like I have a quota for how much Civil War introspection and trivia I can stomach in a year, and I reached it about 3/4 of the way through. Anyway, I recommend this book for someone who is more historically-inclined than I am (i.e., basically everyone).
After living in the South for over a decade, I still never quite understood the obsession some Southerners still have with "The War Between the States".
This book, written over ten years ago, finally helped me understand some of the mentality.
This book, written over ten years ago, finally helped me understand some of the mentality.
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
informative
reflective
medium-paced
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Still timely.
I am certainly not what one might call a Civil War enthusiast, but I am quite interested in portraits of my beloved if incredibly flawed home. This book was amazing. Horwitz managed to discuss some of our nuttier people without painting us all as loopy, which may not sound like much, but when you read as much about the South as I do, you come to appreciate this sort of thing.