- Travel, Influence, United States Civil War, 1861-1865, History
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.
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Classical in form, epic, nostalgic and meticulous.
- classical in formformally daring
- intimateepic
- contemporarynostalgic
- rawmeticulous
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Tony Horwitz
- First published
- 1999
- Pages
- 432
- Publisher
- Book on Tape, G.K. Hall, Vintage
- Editions
- 5
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780965059312
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- Travel
- Influence
- United States Civil War, 1861-1865
- History
- United states, history, civil war, 1861-1865, influence
- United states, history, military
- Confederate states of america, history
- Southern states, description and travel
- American humor - peoples & cultures
- United states - travel essays & descriptions - general & miscellaneous
- Southern u.s. - travel
- United states civil war - resolution & aftermath
“In 1965, a century after Appomattox, the Civil War began for me at a musty apartment in New Haven, Connecticut.”
Anthony Lander Horwitz (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was an American journalist and author who wrote articles and several books. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting. He wrote about subjects including American history and society.
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