Tony and Geraldine threw an outdoor dance party to celebrate the book. Assigned to cover a couple as a Baltimore Sun reporter, I saw such spectacles as inappropriately equalizing both sides of contested ground. He embedded as a Confederate, butternut-gray uniform and all, chronicling forays. Tony hit the water right, translating the cosmic meaning of weekend affairs reenacting Antietam, Gettysburg, and other battles. He made rigorous history beguile and belong to everybody, in a jazzy way.Ĭonfederates in the Attic (1998) was a best seller on the Civil War battle reenactment craze. When he crossed the bridge to books, he knew well how to ask questions, take notes on quotes, probe, and write conversationally. Columbia Journalism School trained him well to become a war correspondent and a Pulitzer Prize winner in 1995 for a muckraking newspaper story on poultry factories down South. Horwitz was not a credentialed historian, which may account for his fresh takes and original voice.
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