Tony Horwitz Quote

Look at these buttons, one soldier said, fingering his gray wool jacket. I soaked them overnight in a saucer filled with urine. Chemicals in the urine oxidized the brass, giving it the patina of buttons from the 1860s. My wife woke up this morning, sniffed the air and said, ‘Tim, you’ve been peeing on your buttons again.

Tony Horwitz

Look at these buttons, one soldier said, fingering his gray wool jacket. I soaked them overnight in a saucer filled with urine. Chemicals in the urine oxidized the brass, giving it the patina of buttons from the 1860s. My wife woke up this morning, sniffed the air and said, ‘Tim, you’ve been peeing on your buttons again.

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About Tony Horwitz

Anthony Lander Horwitz (June 9, 1958 – May 27, 2019) was an American journalist and author, widely known for his articles and books on subjects including American history and society. He won the 1995 Pulitzer Prize for National Reporting.
His books include One for the Road: a Hitchhiker's Outback (1987), Baghdad Without a Map (1991), Confederates in the Attic (1998), Blue Latitudes (AKA Into the Blue) (2002), A Voyage Long and Strange: Rediscovering the New World (2008), Midnight Rising: John Brown and the Raid That Sparked the Civil War (2011), and Spying on the South: An Odyssey Across the American Divide (2019).