siobhanward 's review for:

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

3.0

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3.5 - I really liked this book and found that it offered interesting insight into a topic I know very little about. However, sometimes it becomes obvious that this book is now over 20 years old - mostly in terms of the author’s phrasing of certain things (e.g. “a group of blacks on one side of a classroom and a group of white students on the other” - why couldn’t it have been phrased as a group of black students and a group of white students?). It is interesting reading an older book on this topic, since the debate around the removal of Confederate memorials was starting while Horwitz was writing this book, and is still continuing today.