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"An extraordinarily powerful quest that is both politics and personal.... An important book for everyone in America to read." (Walter Isaacson, number 1 New York Times best-selling writer of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve Careers) The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that patterns us and argues for white America to reckon using its past. A passionate, personal, urgent audiobook from the person who sparked a national debate. "There's a difference between remembrance of record and reverence for this." When Mitch Landrieu dealt with the folks of New Orleans in-may 2017 about his decision to take down four Confederate monuments, like the statue of Robert E. Lee, he struck a nerve nationally, and his talk has now been been told or seen by a huge number across the country. In his first booklet, Mayor Landrieu discusses his personal quest on competition as well as the path he had taken to making the decision to remove the monuments, tackles the broader record of slavery, competition and institutional inequities that still bedevil America, and traces his personal romance to this record. His dad, as state legislator and mayor, was an enormous pressure in the integration of New Orleans in the 1960s and 1970s. Landrieu grew up with a progressive education in one of the country's most racially divided places, but even he had to relearn Southern record as it really happened. Equivalent parts unblinking memoir, record, and prescription for finally confronting America's most unpleasant legacy, In the Shadow of Statues will add firmly to the national conversation about competition in age Donald Trump, at the same time when racism is resurgent with seemingly tacit endorsement from the best levels of government and when too many Us citizens have a misplaced nostalgia for a time and place that never existed.
