Confederates in the Attic [Audiobook] download free by Tony Horwitz
- Listen audiobook: Confederates in the Attic
- Author: Tony Horwitz
- Release date: 2002/8/2
- Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE USA INC
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9780679758334
- Rating: 9.22 of 10
- Votes: 732
- Review by: Evelyn Lenz
- Review rating: 7.27 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/10/16
- Duration: 5H24M24S in 256 kbps (86.4 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-27
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MP3, WMA, WAV, WavPack, MPEG4, FLAC (compression 7Z, RAR, ZIP, BZ2, BZ)
- Total pages original book: 432
- Includes a PDF summary of 40 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 30M44S (8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: Propelled by his boyhood passion for the Civil War, Horwitz embarks on a search for places and people still held in thrall by America's greatest conflict. The result is an adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where the ghosts of the Lost Cause are resurrected through ritual and remembrance. In Virginia, Horwitz joins a band of 'hardcore' reenactors who crash-diet to achieve the hollow-eyed look of starved Confederates; in Kentucky, he witnesses Klan rallies and calls for race war sparked by the killing of a white man who brandishes a rebel flag; at Andersonville, he finds that the prison's commander, executed as a war criminal, is now exalted as a martyr and hero; and in the book's climax, Horwitz takes a marathon trek from Antietam to Gettysburg to Appomattox in the company of Robert Lee Hodge, an eccentric pilgrim who dubs their odyssey the 'Civil Wargasm.' Written with Horwitz's signature blend of humor, history, and hard-nosed journalism, Confederates in the Attic brings alive old battlefields and new ones - classrooms, courts, country bars - where the past and the present collide, often in explosive ways.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, Sociology: Customs & Traditions, Sociology, American Civil War, History Of The Americas, Guidebooks, Modern History To 20th Century: C 1700 To C 1900, Social & Cultural Anthropology
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- Format: Paperback
- Approximate value: 17.49 USD
- Dimensions: 131.06x206.25x24.13mm
- Weight: 312.98g
- Printed by: Vintage Books
- Published in: New York, United States
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