In this book, the author speaks with white Southerners about their views on race.
However, what becomes clear throughout this book are themes like nostalgia, family, land, loss and heritage-themes that serve to bind together white Southerners who have experienced displacement. The reader begins to understand that though most people may think of the South as a singular entity, it’s actually made up of many different locales with their own unique customs and traditions. The book can be thought of as like a bicycle wheel where “the South” sits at the center and individual spokes are attached to it representing different states that are similar but not identical.īy dividing “Confederates in the Attic” into fifteen chapters that focus on separate Southern states, Horwitz is able to highlight the differences between each state and its people. He also chose to discuss his entire visit with one state in each section before moving on to another. Horwitz’s narrative is organized around the states he visited, rather than focusing on a central argument. The book is about his travels through the deep south and interviews with people who live there, as well as visiting Civil War battlefields, museums, and monuments to understand why they are so fascinated with this period of American history. (Mar.1-Page Summary of Confederates In The Attic Overall SummaryĬonfederates in the Attic is a non-fiction book written by Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Tony Horwitz. His vivid, personal account is a mesmerizing review of history from a novel and entertaining angle. Horwitz (Baghdad Without a Map), on a year-long exploration of these groups throughout the South, participated in some of their activities and came to know the lives and personalities of several of their members. The powerful hold of that conflict on a diverse assortment of Americans translates into more than 60,000 books on the subject, according to the author for some Civil War buffs it is an obsession that generates a startling number of clubs whose members regularly reenact the battles, playing out once again the logistics, problems, hardships, leading characters, losses and victories. And when Horwitz was a child, his father read him tales of the Civil War instead of fairy tales and children's literature. The first book the author's Russian grandfather bought on emigrating to the U.S., though he neither read nor spoke English, was about the Civil War, a book he still pored over into his 90s.
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