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A review by booksnooksandcooks
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz
Did not finish book. Stopped at 0%.
got maybe 12 pages in and realized all of my red flags were going off regarding history books, such as but not limited to:
- a journalist writing about history
- a journalist writing about history and making comments about how other people don’t understand said history because they (the author) were obsessed over it as a kid so clearly they know tons (I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t tell an Edwardian naval historian that they don’t know the Titanic better than I do, genius)
- comments about how people were using the Civil War to make comments about race and class when ~clearly it’s about much more~
- a journalist writing about history
- a journalist writing about history and making comments about how other people don’t understand said history because they (the author) were obsessed over it as a kid so clearly they know tons (I’m pretty sure I wouldn’t tell an Edwardian naval historian that they don’t know the Titanic better than I do, genius)
- comments about how people were using the Civil War to make comments about race and class when ~clearly it’s about much more~