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In the shadow of statues : a White Southerner confronts history

2018

Format:	Book
Author:	Landrieu, Mitch, author.
Title:	In the shadow of statues : a White Southerner confronts history / Mitch Landrieu.
Publisher, Date:	New York, New York : Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2018]
Description:	227 pages ; 22 cm
Summary:	"There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it." When Landrieu addressed the people of New Orleans in May 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, he struck a nerve nationally. Here he discusses his personal journey on race as well as the path he took to making the decision to remove the monuments; tackles the broader history of slavery, race and institutional inequities that still bedevil America; and traces his personal relationship to this history. -- adapted from jacket.
Subjects:	Landrieu, Mitch. Soldiers' monuments -- Louisiana -- New Orleans. Statues -- Louisiana -- New Orleans. Monuments -- Social aspects -- Southern States. Racism -- Louisiana -- New Orleans. Southern States -- Race relations. New Orleans (La.) -- Politics and government.
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (page 215).
Contents:	Prologue: Can someone get me a crane? -- Broadmoor -- Learning to see what's in front of me -- David Duke and Donald Trump, a nightmare loop -- Politics in disaster time -- Rebuilding and mourning in NOLA -- The shadow of Robert E. Lee -- Epilogue -- Truth: Remarks on the removal of Confederate monuments in New Orleans (speech made at Gallier Hall, May 19, 2017).
LCCN:	2018006748
ISBN:	9780525559443 0525559442 9780525559443
Other Number:	1012775511
System Availability:	1
Current Holds:	0
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Control Number:	718519
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Call Number:	305.8 Landrieu

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