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PublisherPenguin Publishing Group
ISBN-101101980281
ISBN-139781101980286
eBay Product ID (ePID)10038791970
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Book TitleSpying on the South : an Odyssey Across the American Divide
Number of Pages496 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2019
TopicSlavery, United States / South / General, Landscape, United States / 19th Century
IllustratorYes
GenreTravel, Architecture, Social Science, History
AuthorTony Horwitz
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight27.1 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.3 in
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Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2018-056912
Reviews" A tour is only as good as its guide, and Horwitz is a seasoned one--inquisitive, open-minded, and opting for observation over judgment, whether at a dive bar, monster truck rally, the Creation Museum, or a historical plantation. The book will appeal to fans of travelogue, Civil War-era history, and current events by way of Southern sensibilities." -- Booklist "Horwitz brings humor, curiosity, and care to capturing the voices of the larger-than-life characters he encounters. A huge canvas of intricate details, this thoughtful and observant work delicately navigates the long shadow of America''s history." -- Publishers Weekly, starred review "With the keen eye and deft pen that he''s long brought to telling the odd and wonderful and fascinating story of America, Tony Horwitz has returned to familiar territory--the South--to give us a unique piece of reportage from a region that tells us a whole lot more about the country than the country sometimes wants to admit. Like his classic Confederates in the Attic , this book will be read, remembered, and treasured." --Jon Meacham, Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian and author of The Soul of America "Tony Horwitz''s reporting is fearless and persistent and inspired--and it produces views of America like no one else''s. Spying on the South kept me turning the pages to see what frightening and funny revelation was coming next. An important book for our almost unprecedented moment in history." --Ian Frazier, author of Great Plains and Travels in Siberia "In the long dark years before the Civil War, Frederick Law Olmsted toured the South by stage, by boat, by train, and by foot, reporting on a nation unraveling. Tony Horwitz does much more than follow in Olmsted''s footsteps in this searching travel narrative: he chronicles an American agony, the pain of division, the anguish of uncertainty. But he finds, too, an enduring American spirit of generosity, and commonweal, and curiosity." --Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States "Two journeys, a hundred and sixty years apart, remind us that history doesn''t repeat itself, but it does rhyme. In the midst of our country''s long-overdue reckoning with symbols of white supremacy, Tony Horwitz retraces the steps of America''s greatest landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, whose encounters with slavery forced him to rethink the role of civic spaces in the American experiment. Horwitz brings home a magnificent account of who we have been and what we might still become." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Stony the Road "Having grown up amidst the Emerald Necklace, having lived off the northern fringes of Central Park and later the western edge of its rangier cousin, Prospect, and having read Devil In the White City , I truly did not know there were any more astonishments left in the life of Frederick Law Olmsted. Leave it to the incomparable Tony Horwitz to reveal Olmsted''s secret life as a journalistic super-spy, peering not merely into the burgeoning Confederacy, but, as Horowitz poignantly observes, a cultural divide with which we are still reckoning." --John Hodgman, author of Vacationland "In the 1850s, Yankees saw the South as a foreign country and the New York Times sent Frederick Law Olmsted on an undercover mission to interpret it for readers. It was a daring and inspired move, and so is Tony Horwitz''s retracing of Olmsted''s path from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Spoiler alert, things don''t always go well for our dauntless guide, but they sure do for the reader. This is one of the smartest, funniest, and most illuminating books about the South and Texas, and about our own divided times, I''ve had the pleasure to read." --Bryan Burrough, author of Days of Rage , The Big Rich and Public Enemies, "With the keen eye and deft pen that he's long brought to telling the odd and wonderful and fascinating story of America, Tony Horwitz has returned to familiar territory--the South--to give us a unique piece of reportage from a region that tells us a whole lot more about the country than the country sometimes wants to admit. Like his classic Confederates in the Attic , this book will be read, remembered, and treasured." --Jon Meacham, Pulitzer-Prize-winning historian and author of The Soul of America "Tony Horwitz's reporting is fearless and persistent and inspired--and it produces views of America like no one else's. Spying on the South kept me turning the pages to see what frightening and funny revelation was coming next. An important book for our almost unprecedented moment in history." --Ian Frazier, author of Great Plains and Travels in Siberia "In the long dark years before the Civil War, Frederick Law Olmsted toured the South by stage, by boat, by train, and by foot, reporting on a nation unraveling. Tony Horwitz does much more than follow in Olmsted's footsteps in this searching travel narrative: he chronicles an American agony, the pain of division, the anguish of uncertainty. But he finds, too, an enduring American spirit of generosity, and commonweal, and curiosity." --Jill Lepore, author of These Truths: A History of the United States "Two journeys, a hundred and sixty years apart, remind us that history doesn't repeat itself, but it does rhyme. In the midst of our country's long-overdue reckoning with symbols of white supremacy, Tony Horwitz retraces the steps of America's greatest landscape architect, Frederick Law Olmsted, whose encounters with slavery forced him to rethink the role of civic spaces in the American experiment. Horwitz brings home a magnificent account of who we have been and what we might still become." --Henry Louis Gates, Jr., author of Stony the Road "Having grown up amidst the Emerald Necklace, having lived off the northern fringes of Central Park and later the western edge of its rangier cousin, Prospect, and having read Devil In the White City , I truly did not know there were any more astonishments left in the life of Frederick Law Olmsted. Leave it to the incomparable Tony Horwitz to reveal Olmsted's secret life as a journalistic super-spy, peering not merely into the burgeoning Confederacy, but, as Horowitz poignantly observes, a cultural divide with which we are still reckoning." --John Hodgman, author of Vacationland "In the 1850s, Yankees saw the South as a foreign country and the New York Times sent Frederick Law Olmsted on an undercover mission to interpret it for readers. It was a daring and inspired move, and so is Tony Horwitz's retracing of Olmsted's path from the Potomac to the Rio Grande. Spoiler alert, things don't always go well for our dauntless guide, but they sure do for the reader. This is one of the smartest, funniest, and most illuminating books about the South and Texas, and about our own divided times, I've had the pleasure to read." --Bryan Burrough, author of Days of Rage , The Big Rich and Public Enemies
Dewey Edition23
Dewey Decimal917.504
SynopsisThe New York Times -bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South , the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name Yeoman, the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners were revelatory for readers of his day, and Yeoman's remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape, as Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape architect. Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport (including muleback): through Appalachia, down the Mississippi River, into bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. Venturing far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges and strange new mutations of the Cotton Kingdom. Horwitz's intrepid and often hilarious journey through an outsized American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains , Bad Land , and the author's own classic, Confederates in the Attic., The New York Times -bestselling final book by the beloved, Pulitzer-Prize winning historian Tony Horwitz. With Spying on the South , the best-selling author of Confederates in the Attic returns to the South and the Civil War era for an epic adventure on the trail of America's greatest landscape architect. In the 1850s, the young Frederick Law Olmsted was adrift, a restless farmer and dreamer in search of a mission. He found it during an extraordinary journey, as an undercover correspondent in the South for the up-and-coming New York Times. For the Connecticut Yankee, pen name "Yeoman," the South was alien, often hostile territory. Yet Olmsted traveled for 14 months, by horseback, steamboat, and stagecoach, seeking dialogue and common ground. His vivid dispatches about the lives and beliefs of Southerners were revelatory for readers of his day, and Yeoman's remarkable trek also reshaped the American landscape, as Olmsted sought to reform his own society by creating democratic spaces for the uplift of all. The result: Central Park and Olmsted's career as America's first and foremost landscape architect. Tony Horwitz rediscovers Yeoman Olmsted amidst the discord and polarization of our own time. Is America still one country? In search of answers, and his own adventures, Horwitz follows Olmsted's tracks and often his mode of transport (including muleback): through Appalachia, down the Mississippi River, into bayou Louisiana, and across Texas to the contested Mexican borderland. Venturing far off beaten paths, Horwitz uncovers bracing vestiges and strange new mutations of the Cotton Kingdom. Horwitz's intrepid and often hilarious journey through an outsized American landscape is a masterpiece in the tradition of Great Plains , Bad Land , and the author's own classic, Confederates in the Attic.
LC Classification NumberF213.H768 2019
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- 11. Mai. 2021
A partisan tour of low-lights of the South.
Having lived decades in both the South and the rural and urban North, a quick read of this book shows it to be entertaining writing of a tour of skid rows of the "South", starting with rundown motels and bars in West Virginia (the South?). The tour is populated with persons encountered in those spots, and the story fortified by history vignettes of the cruelties of slavery and of now-closed Southern prisons. I've traveled through 90% of the "Lower 48" and know how to find fringe locales in any area or community--also how to find happy and prosperous areas in any region (excepting possibly Northern Urban enclaves). Mr. Horwitz is a skilled, entertaining writer. I have and enjoyed his "Confederates in the Attic", but my past 3 decades of living in the Deep South have shown it to be a remnant of traditional, home & family "Middle America", with much less racial tension than I experienced in large Northern cities. Unfortunately this book is too political--then it became openly anti-Trump. The original idea was good and interesting, though he should have followed Olmstead's route through the South Atlantic states.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 09. Nov. 2021
A Funny, accurate commentary on elements of Southern Culture
Outstanding "travel" book, with "in the moment" reviews and experiences of certain aspects of oday's Southern culture, perhaps not the side Southerners would prefer to have advertised. It's also laugh out loud funny.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 16. Apr. 2023
All good
Entertaining and informative, this story as good as the reviews suggested it would be. The book is in excellent condition, and arrived on time.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 24. Mär. 2021
Excellent, timely book.
All Tony Horwitz books are great. His passing is a terrible loss.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 09. Mär. 2022
Great follow up to Confederates in the Attic
This is his second book on traveling through the South. I found it quite interesting and informative.Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 18. Feb. 2020
compelling
insightfulBestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 26. Feb. 2025
Perfect copy of a hardcover! Very please...
Perfect copy of a hardcover! Very pleased!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
- 01. Jun. 2021
GREAT!
GREAT!Bestätigter Kauf: JaArtikelzustand: Gebraucht
