Book Review: ‘Charlottesville’ a dramatic account of deadly 2017 rally and history behind it

From Charlottesville to the White House: How the “Unite the Right” Rally Altered American Politics

It was Mother’s Day weekend. The weather was gorgeous. The dogwoods dotting the streets of downtown were in their last blooms. Final exams at the University of Virginia were over and commencement was a week away. In a deconsecrated church on Market Street that Saturday, a spirited debate was taking place between two Democratic candidates […]

Book Review: ‘Charlottesville’ a dramatic account of deadly 2017 rally and history behind it

Decades before the violent Unite the Right rally in 2017 in Charlottesville that drew white nationalists protesting the removal of a Robert E. Lee statue, the city was targeted by a white supremacist who hoped to ignite a race war. To understand the 2017 Unite the Right rally, Deborah Baker writes in “Charlottesville: An American Story,” readers have to go back to 1956 and John Kasper’s trip to Charlottesville to protest school integration. That…