02818cam a2200349 i 4500 2112509363 TxAuBib 20250714120000.0 241205s2025||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2024048137 9781644453414 HRD 35.00 164445341X HRD 35.00 (OCoLC)1452444190 TxAuBib rda Baker, Deborah, 1959-, author. Charlottesville [BOOK] : an American story / Deborah Baker. Minneapolis, Minnesota : Graywolf Press, 2025. xviii, 442 pages ; 24 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references (pages 365-429) and index. "In August 2017, over a thousand neo-Nazis, fascists, Klan members, and neo-Confederates descended on a small southern city to protest the pending removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. Within an hour of their arrival, the city's historic downtown was a scene of bedlam as armored far right cadres battled activists in the streets. Before the weekend was over, a neo-Nazi had driven a car into a throng of counterprotesters, killing a young woman and injuring dozens. Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker has written a riveting and panoptic account of what unfolded that weekend, focusing less on the rally's far right leaders than on the story of the city itself. University, local, and state officials, including law enforcement, were unable or unwilling to graspthe gathering threat. Clergy, activists, and organizers from all walks of life saw more clearly what was coming and, at great personal risk, worked to warn and defend their city. To understand why their warnings fell on deaf ears, Baker does a deep diveinto American history. In her research she discovers an uncannily similar event that took place decades before when an emissary of the poet and fascist Ezra Pound arrived in Charlottesville intending to start a race war. In Charlottesville, Baker shows how a city more associated with Thomas Jefferson than civil unrest became a flashpoint in a continuing struggle over our nation's founding myths". 20250714. Unite the Right Rally, Charlottesville, Va., 2017. Riots Virginia Charlottesville History 21st century. Protest movements Virginia Charlottesville. White supremacy movements Virginia Charlottesville. Soldiers' monuments Social aspects Virginia Charlottesville. Charlottesville (Va) History 21st century. United States History Civil War, 1861-1865 Monuments Social aspects.