A review by twinspin
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz

4.0

A couple of thoughts on this book. As someone who grew up in the North and has lived in the South for the past 25 years, I feel I can certainly relate to its Yankee author and his quest to relive Southern Civil War history in more modern times. And I really appreciate Horwitz' impartiality as we see both respect for the South and North sprinkled throughout his narrative. Horwitz is both entertaining and insightful and we readers, especially those living in the South, learn much about our history and ourselves when reading his prose. But I do sort of wonder how true Northerners feel about the book (bored?) and I also feel the book begs for an update 15 years later. I personally believe a lot has happened to the South in the last 15 years and do sort of question whether many of the folks Horwitz encountered in the mid 1990s feel the same way today that they did back then. But a very enjoyable book.