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Article: Horwitz revisits his Civil War obsession; Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter finds deeply divided South still clinging to `lost cause' and grappling with race issues.(ENTERTAINMENT)(Review) (book review)
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- Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN)
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- May 17, 1998
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Confederates in the Attic: Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War
- By: Tony Horwitz.
- Publisher: Pantheon, 406 pages, $27.50.
- Review: One hundred and thirty years gone, the Civil War still divides the South deeply along racial lines even as it attracts a growing culture of reenactors.
As a child, Tony Horwitz painted the walls of his family's attic with scenes of Confederate battles.
As a seasoned reporter, he set out across the South one year to figure out why he and so many Americans are still obsessed with the Civil War.
What he found was some Southerners who "still think it's halftime," a society divided ...