Example sentences for: horwitz

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  • The strength of Horwitz's book lies in his gift for fleshing them out through precisely rendered encounters with Southerners of all walks and all colors, united only by the common Southern compulsion to answer a question with a story.

  • But this is America, and when Horwitz's great-grandfather, Poppa Isaac, made his way from czarist Russia to the East Side of New York, one of his first purchases was a book about the Civil War.

  • Some people who were thus obsessed were so because, as Horwitz notes, "roughly half of modern-day white Southerners descended from Confederates, and one in four Southern men of military age died in [it]."

  • The interest was passed on, and Horwitz's father, a physician, kept his son up late at night reading from the 10-volume Photographic History of the Civil War . By third grade, Horwitz fils was completing his own "highly derivative" history of the war and commencing a Sistine-scale project: a mural of the war, pro-Rebel in slant, that would soon cover every inch of attic wall space.

  • Speaking as one of the latter, I discovered that Horwitz made me confront my aversion in a way that was both troubling and revealing.


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