Analysis of Tony Horwitz's Book, Confederates in the Attic

The American Civil War is considered to be one of the most decisive moments in American history. It is this war that forms a social, political and economic structure with broader prospects of unifying the nation, leading to the ideal of a unified country today. In the book "Ally in the Attic", the author Tony Horwitz introduces his one year exploration of the place of the American Civil War. He traveled in the south and found relics of the civil war, the battlefield, and the most important story, raised interest in the civil war of childhood to a new level.

That said, until I got Tony Horwitz to absorb the new book of midnight rise: John Brown and the raid that caused the civil war. Horwitz is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist who writes many writing gifts, probably the most famous one is "Allies in the Attic" published in 1998 on the United States. Continuing commitment book with civil war. This time, Horwitz is irritated by the history sometimes seeing his dramatic attack on Harpers Ferry as "speed breakthrough" of Brown and civil war - back in 1800 when Brown was born in a baby, the Federation Year. This country is still "a society before 5 million industrialization", among which "nearly 900,000 people are enslaved."

Like the travel writer Bill Bryson, Horwitz encounters colorful characters and likes to fall into a strange situation oneself. At the moment reminiscent of "Allies in Atti" (Horwitz's book on the recurrence of the civil war), he traveled with a group of Florida conquistadors and furthermore when he said, "Like their tin, their heavy Spain I was wearing the armor of the people. "People are ashamed and squeaky. In St. Augustine, Florida, founded in 1565, Horvitz, the oldest European permanent settlement in Europe, lamented the long history of the city "Disney". The mixed heritage of Spain was sterilized and turned into Horwitz. Tourists - Please consider a friendly hawker. (Thinking of the brutality of many Spanish conquistadors, a sullenly employee of sightseeing in St. Augustine told Horwitz "Celebrating them is like worshiping Charles Manson."