But awakened one morning by the crackle of musket fire, Horwitz starts filing front-line dispatches again this time from a war close to home, and to his own heart. When prize-winning war correspondent Tony Horwitz leaves the battlefields of Bosnia and the Middle East for a peaceful corner of the Blue Ridge Mountains, he thinks he's put war zones behind him. is an eyes–open, humorously no–nonsense survey of complicated Americans.' - The New York Times Book Reviewįor all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War-reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners, history fans, students of current racial conflicts, and more-this ten-state adventure is part travelogue, part social commentary and always good-humored. This splendid commemoration of the war and its legacy. 'The freshest book about divisiveness in America that I have read in some time. A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefield visitors, and fans of history resurrect the ghosts of the Lost Cause through ritual and remembrance.

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