Tony Horowitz is an America journalist and writer; he has won the Pulitzer award for his work on “conditions in low-wage America“, which was published in The Wall Street Journal. His genre has a deep connection to the civil war. This book is no different; it is as first person narration of his travels through the south. Horowitz gives his thoughts and opinions of his travels around the south, mostly looking for, remnants of the civil war, historical places, the impact of the confederacy, racism and how it has impacted the south. Horowitz ends up finding out that there are allot of different views about the civil war and the impact that it has. He also finds that the idea of the confederacy has evolved in many places, that Avery state, city, county and individual means something different.
The tittle “Confederates in the Attic” fits in very well as you read through the book. Horowitz demonstrates though his travels though the south how the confederacy idea of separatism, Xenophobia, self righteousness, anti-government and distrust of the north still persist today. In his travels thought the south Horowitz meets …show more content…
He is a man that took the reenactment to a new level. He explains how he is used in pictures for magazines to portray a civil was soldier. He also meets a German Historian that is interested about the Civil War, and he tells Horowitz about his experiences in the south and how he has to make up a story about his past in order to fit in better, during his travels. My favorite report is when Tony Horowitz visits Todd County to report on the murder of Michael Westerman, a man that was murdered by a gunshot that was fired from a car containing black teenagers, for having a Confederate flag on the back of his pickup truck. There he sees how stupid and ridicules some of the people feel that the Confederate flag represents and how naïve people are about what they teach their
The tittle “Confederates in the Attic” fits in very well as you read through the book. Horowitz demonstrates though his travels though the south how the confederacy idea of separatism, Xenophobia, self righteousness, anti-government and distrust of the north still persist today. In his travels thought the south Horowitz meets …show more content…
He is a man that took the reenactment to a new level. He explains how he is used in pictures for magazines to portray a civil was soldier. He also meets a German Historian that is interested about the Civil War, and he tells Horowitz about his experiences in the south and how he has to make up a story about his past in order to fit in better, during his travels. My favorite report is when Tony Horowitz visits Todd County to report on the murder of Michael Westerman, a man that was murdered by a gunshot that was fired from a car containing black teenagers, for having a Confederate flag on the back of his pickup truck. There he sees how stupid and ridicules some of the people feel that the Confederate flag represents and how naïve people are about what they teach their