Confederates in the Attic - Dispatches from the Unfinished Civil War

After years of filing dispatches from foreign war zones, Tony Horwitz comes home to the ongoing conflict over the American Civil War. How will it be remembered? In a riotous tour of the Old South, Horwitz confronts an explosive mixture of white rage, rebel grit and regional pride. He uncovers a world of ritual and remembrance, where the symbols and ghosts of the glorious lost cause are resurrected with religious fervour. He encounters unforgettable characters, including a troop of wannabe rebels on an ecstatic pilgrimage called the Civil Wargasm. He discovers new battlefields - schoolrooms, convention halls, bars and legislative chambers - where the meaning of the war is still, often brutally, debated....