Charlottesville: An American Story
Comprehensively demonstrates how internet hatemongering and gun ubiquity are endangering pluralism, civic participation and good-faith debate ... Given the demands on our attention in the Trump era, not all readers will want to revisit Charlottesville. But, as described by Baker, the events couldn’t be timelier.
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Historical context combines with a vivid narrative of the 2017 demonstrations to give readers a better understanding of the combustible atmosphere that converged on Charlottesville ... Comprehensive ... Baker’s writing style delivers an on-the-ground feel of what it was like in Charlottesville, including a harrowing account of the night torch-wielding white nationalists marched through the University of Virginia’s campus.
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This stark account of the 2017 white supremacist 'Unite the Right' rally seeks perspective but cannot shake deep feelings of dread ... Answers are elusive, but Baker expertly limns prevailing anxieties.
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