Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide

by Tony Horwitz

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1101980281
• ISBN13: 9781101980286
• Release Date: May 2019
• Publisher: Penguin Press
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 5.8" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Meh... kind of boring.

Huge Tony Horowitz fan, however, this book was a bit of a snooze fest. Got about 275 pages in and quit... just not enough there to keep me going. Read his “Confederates in the Attic,” it is one of the best books I’ve ever read, and as a history teacher, I’ve read quite a few.