In the Shadow of Statues
A White Southerner Confronts History
by Mitch Landrieu
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and History.
The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked a national debate."There is a difference between remembrance of history and reverence for it." When Mitch Landrieu addressed the people of Ne...
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Recommended by 2 sources and appears in Most Recommended Books, Politics, and History.
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Barack Obama
44th President of the United States
“An ultimately optimistic take from someone who believes the South will rise again not by reasserting the past, but by transcending it.”
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