I enjoyed every diverting page of Spying on the South, but we need something more now. Its an eye opening account at a part of American history that we still live with today. Yet he doesn’t build on that discomfort, that paradox, and the more I read, the more questions I had. Reviewed in the United States on DecemVerified Purchase Tony Horowitzs fascinating Confederates in the Attic had me captivated from start to finish. He sees himself as an 'infiltrator' in accepting the hospitality of men and women who gleefully conform to 'a garish stereotype of the rural white South,' liking them individually but repelled by what they stand for. And his method often relies on chance, the accidents of the road. Some of that’s a reporter’s skill in making himself liked, but a lot is a matter of temperament, a warm, open ability to suspend judgment and take people at their own valuation. As a traveler, Horwitz is ready to talk and listen to anyone, and to laugh with them too. I say 'the same strengths,' and yet that American divide feels far more consequential here than it did in Confederates. Horwitz died in May of cardiac arrest, at sixty, just after its publication. Spying on the South has many of the same strengths, but reading it is a melancholy experience.

Midnight Rising, was named a New York Times. His books include the national and New York Times bestsellers, Confederates in the Attic, Blue Latitudes, Baghdad Without a Map and A Voyage Long and Strange.

Horwitz’s best-known book remains Confederates in the Attic.an often funny and penetrating piece of reporting about the world of Civil War reenactors.while its pages are fully alive to absurdity, they are marked by generosity too. After returning to the U.S., he won the Pulitzer Prize for national reporting and wrote for The New Yorker before becoming a full-time author.

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