From my list on books about Nothing, in particular: because Nothing always means Something.
Why am I passionate about this?
I’ve always been fascinated by how we remember the past and why some things get written into histories and other things don’t. I realized that Nothing happens all the time but no one has thought to ask how we remember it. Once I started looking for how Nothing was being remembered, I found it all around me. Books I read as a kid, movies I’d seen, songs I’d heard – these were my sources. So when I started working, Nothing got done (yes, I love puns!).
Susan's book list on books about Nothing, in particular: because Nothing always means Something
Why did Susan love this book?
Like a classic wine pairing, read Horwitz and Smith together and savor the full flavors. White journalist Horwitz visited every former Confederate state and talked to local people about how memories of the Confederacy were still alive at the end of the twentieth century.
I loved his eye for detail and his knack for finding fascinating people to talk to. His stories are hilarious, outrageous, and compelling all at once.
5 authors picked Confederates in the Attic as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A Pulitzer Prize-winning war correspondent takes us on an explosive adventure into the soul of the unvanquished South, where Civil War reenactors, battlefield visitors, and fans of history resurrect the ghosts of the Lost Cause through ritual and remembrance.
"The freshest book about divisiveness in America that I have read in some time. This splendid commemoration of the war and its legacy ... is an eyes–open, humorously no–nonsense survey of complicated Americans." —The New York Times Book Review
For all who remain intrigued by the legacy of the Civil War—reenactors, battlefield visitors, Confederate descendants and other Southerners,…