author and pulitzer prize- winning journalist tony horwitz. he died suddenly yesterday of an aprent cardiac arrest. horwitz was best known as the author of "confederates in the attic," a look at modern-day wauthern attitudes about the civi and the people who re-enact it. ale book was a best-seller. as a jout, he covered conflicts in the middle east, herica and the balkans for "wall street journal." he won the pulitzer in 1995 for a series on income inequality and low-wage jobs, including working at chicken processin plants in the south. a number of horwitz's books are ough the narrative of a first-person account. that's true of hist book, "spying on the south." william brangham recently sat down with him about it. here's that interview. >> brangham: almost 160 years ,go, with america on the brink of civil wa young writeer from connecticut was sent south to file regular dispatches om the so-called "cotton kingdom" of the slave-holding states.

tony horwitz joins me now. welcome back to the newshour. >> thanks for having me again. >> brangham: i haveq this book was such a surprise, as a former new yorkerand now someone who lives in washington, d.c., i have spent many, many hours in the genius creations of frederick law olmsted, and i had no idea that he was a writer and good one and a good reporter. >> uh-huh. >> brangha how did you find this story and decide this is what you wanted to do? >> the truetory is that it happened while i was cleaning house. my wife and i live in an old farm stead in massachusetts where everything sags. and our overflowing books don't help, and whiro sorting gh them as we were fighting over shelf space, i discovered "the cotton kingdom," a book that grew out of olmsted's reporting that i had been assigned in college. i dove back into it and was jusl instcaptivated by his vivid writing about the south. brangham: can you give us a sense of what was that it he was aporting. we know whererica was roughly on the cusp of the civi

. >> then sunday, in his new book spying on the south, the late author tony horwitz recounts the travels of landscape architect who wrote about life in the south during the lead up to the civil war. 20tape this program on may and died on may 27. it was the vividness of his writing about the south in that era and my curiosity of how he got from there to central ofk and also his mission yes, i'm going to cross this divide and try and understand what is happening in this country at this moment. >> and at 9:00, 60 minutes correspondent scott kelly on major news events he has covered as a reporter and his thoughts on a free press. his latest book is "truth worth telling." he is interviewed by david gregory. >> what is the fastest way to destroy a democracy? is it war? is it terrorism? is it another great depression? i think the fastest way to destroy democracy is to poison the information. that is what we are seeing. we have moved from the information age to the disinformation age. >> watch this weekend on "book tv" on c-span2. >> next, recent college commencement speeches by ,resident trump,

there is a picture of tony holmes -- of bernie horwitz. one more call for you.ark is inwashing -- columbus. what are you watching? tired of congress thinking about what they ought to do. they ought to have impeachments for american people to hear what went on, whether this man is acquitted or not. the american people have the right to know what is going on. these people in congress. these people in congress are scared of losing their seats. well, you should be, because if you do not do the right thing, you should be put out your chair. --ther thing, my last thing i would like to know, what is an african-american? host: how would you define it? we have had a lot of callers in this segment about that term. dictionaryl, the defines ethnicity is where you were raised. was anr words, if i african man, and i was raised english, my ethnicity is english, ok? you know the only place in the world that i am an african .merican is in america everywhere else i go, i am an american, because that is where i was born. i am african-american as a term used in my opinion to keep t