Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments Thompson Erin L.
Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments Thompson Erin L. An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Why do we care so much about…
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Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments Thompson Erin L.
An urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Why do we care so much about statues? Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them.
Thompson, the country's leading expert in the tangled aesthetic, legal, political, and social issues involved in such battles brings much-needed clarity in Smashing Statues. And who gets to decide which ones should stay up and which should come down?Erin L. She traces the turbulent history of American monuments and its abundant ironies, starting with the enslaved man who helped make the statue of Freedom atop the US Capitol, and explores the surprising motivations behind such contemporary flashpoints as the toppling of a statue of Columbus at the Minnesota State Capitol.
Written with great verve and thoroughly researched, Smashing
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