Same co-worker who suggested the Raising Sand CD plopped three Tony Horwitz books on my desk a month or so ago and told me to read. I have, and it s been fun. Horwitz took off to the Middle East in the 1990s with his wife, who had a job for a large newspaper.
He was free-lancing, and his travels throughout the region trying track down stories are edifying, hilarious, and right-on insightful. The book about the Middle East is Baghdad Without a Map. Another, Confederates in the Attic, is about a tour through the South to Civil War sites and his discussions with the war s many aficionados.
I ve just started, and I ve already learned about the re-enactors who won t eat so they can assume the emaciated look of real Civil War soldiers. Horwitz is that rare journalist that combines the eye for detail with a novelist s sense of storytelling. Check him out.
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