A review by bhnmt61
Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War by Tony Horwitz

4.0

I found this book fascinating, well-researched, and easy to read. Tony Horwitz spent a year down the rabbit hole of Southerners who are still obsessed with the Civil War (it was originally published 1998, one suspects that not much has changed). The only problem is that it's depressing to read. The amount of misinformation, the attachment to outdated values, the obsession with the past (which is sometimes not even the real past, but an imagined one)-- I can only imagine what Horwitz's interviewees could do in the here and now if they applied as much energy and imagination to the present. This is a great example of why I love being in a book club-- this is a book I would never have picked up on my own, but I'm glad I read it.