Cry havoc Charlottesville and American democracy under siege
Book - 2020
"The former mayor of Charlottesville, VA, delivers a first-person chronicle of the terror and mayhem of the August 2017 "Unite the Right" event in his town, and shows how issues of extremism are affecting not just one city but the nation itself"--
- Subjects
- Genres
- Personal narratives
History - Published
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New York, NY :
PublicAffairs
2020.
- Language
- English
- Main Author
- Edition
- First edition
- Physical Description
- xiii, 383 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 341-359) and index.
- ISBN
- 9781541736153
- Major Characters
- Part I. Civility
- Introduction: Winter in Summer
- 1. The Hook
- 2. "Simply Because There's Passion" (January 2016)
- 3. "Is Mike Your Daddy?" (February 2016)
- 4. Race, Policy, and the Past (March 2016)
- 5. "Broaden the Aperture" (April 2016)
- 6. Changing the Narrative (Sway 2016)
- 7. "Hell Signer" (June 2016)
- 8. "Have You Even Read the Us Constitution?" (July 2016)
- 9. "To Un-Erase This History" (August 2016)
- Part II. In Extremis
- 10. Transactional or Transformational? (September 2016)
- 11. "We Will Build This World from Love" (October 2016)
- 12. Dizzying and Despondent (November 2016)
- 13. "It's an Issue of Right and Wrong, Sir" (December 2016)
- 14. "You Gotta Get Me Out of This" (January 2017)
- 15. Grenade Game (February 2017)
- 16. "Disturbance or Removal" (March 2017)
- 17. "Our Mayor is a Neo-Fascist" (April 2017)
- Part II. The Summer of Hate
- 18. "That Day We Finish Them All Off" (May 2017)
- 19. "Don't Take the Bait" (Juke 2017)
- 20. "Sailing into the Windstorm" (July 2017)
- Part IV. Firestorm
- 21. Domestic Terrorism (August 2017)
- Part V. Afterburn
- 22. "Donald Trump Is God!" (September 2017)
- 23. Flash Mob (October 2017)
- 24. "Unmask the Illusion" (November 2017)
- 25. "Like Talking to a Brick Wall" (December 2017)
- 26. The Crucible (2018)
- 27. Overcoming Extremism
- Conclusion
- Acknowledgments
- Notes
- Index