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Down along with that devil's bones a reckoning with monuments, memory, and the legacy of white supremacy

"A journalist's memoir-plus-reporting about modern-day conflicts over Southern monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate hero and original leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as a personal examination of the legacy of white supremacy through the US today, tracing the throughline f...

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Main Author: O'Neill, Connor Towne, 1989- (Author)
Format: Books Print Book
Language: English
Published: Chapel Hill, North Carolina : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, [2020]
Edition: First edition.
Subjects:
Forrest, Nathan Bedford, > 1821-1877.
Generals > Confederate States of America > Biography.
White supremacy movements > Southern States > History.
Soldiers' monuments > Southern States.
Biographies.
Summary: "A journalist's memoir-plus-reporting about modern-day conflicts over Southern monuments to Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate hero and original leader of the Ku Klux Klan, as well as a personal examination of the legacy of white supremacy through the US today, tracing the throughline from Appomattox to Charlottesville"--
Physical Description: 262 pages : 22 cm
Bibliography: Includes bibliographical resources.
ISBN: 9781616209100
1616209100
Author Notes: Connor Towne O'Neill 's writing has appeared in New York magazine, Vulture , Slate , and elsewhere, and he works as a producer on the NPR podcast White Lies , a finalist for the 2020 Pulitzer Prize in Audio Reporting. He lives in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, and teaches at Auburn University and with the Alabama Prison Arts + Education Project. Down Along with That Devil's Bones is his first book.

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