Connor Towne O'N - Down Along with That Devil's Bones : A Reck

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The Author Name is Connor Towne O'Neill
The Title is Down Along with That Devil's Bones : A Reckoning with Monuments, Memory, and the Legacy of White Supremacy

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Connor Towne O'Neill's journey onto the battlefield of white supremacy began with a visit to Selma, Alabama, in 2015. There he had a chance encounter with a group of people preparing to erect a statue to celebrate the memory of Nathan Bedford Forrest, one of the most notorious Confederate generals, a man whom Union general William Tecumseh Sherman referred to as 'that devil'. After that day in Selma, O'Neill, a white Northerner transplanted to the South, decided to dig deeply into the history of Forrest and other monuments to him throughout the South, which, like Confederate monuments across America, have become flash points in the fight against racism. Forrest was not just a brutal general, O'Neill learned he was a slave trader and the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan. O'Neill encountered citizens who still hold Forrest in cult-like awe, desperate to preserve what they call their 'heritage', and he also talked to others fighting to tear the monuments down. In doing so he discovered a direct line from Forrest's ugly history straight to the heart of the battles raging today all across America. The fight over Forrest reveals a larger battle, one meant to sustain white supremacy - a system that props up all white people, not just those defending the monuments. With clear-eyed passion and honest introspection, O'Neill takes readers on a journey to understand the many ways in which the Civil War, begun in 1860, has never ended. A brilliant and provocative blend of history, reportage, and personal essay, Down Along with That Devil's Bones presents an important and eye-opening account of how America got from Appomattox to Charlottesville, and of the vital need to confront the past in order to transcend it and move toward a more just society. 'We can no longer see ourselves as minor spectators or weary watchers of history a fter finishing this astonishing work of nonfiction.' - Kiese Laymon, author of Heavy

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