Beyond Charlottesville Taking a Stan..., Terry McAuliffe
Beyond Charlottesville Taking a Stan..., Terry McAuliffe
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Beyond Charlottesville: Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism

Bestseller

Author: Terry McAuliffe

Narrator: Lamarr Gulley, Terry McAuliffe

Unabridged: 5 hr 21 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 07/30/2019


Synopsis

THE INSTANT NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

This program is read by the author.

The former governor of Virginia tells the behind-the-scenes story of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville—and shows how we can prevent other Charlottesvilles from happening.

When Governor Terry McAuliffe hung up the phone on the afternoon of the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, he was sure Donald Trump would do the right thing as president: condemn the white supremacists who’d descended on the college town and who’d caused McAuliffe to declare a state of emergency that morning. He didn’t. Instead Trump declared there was “hatred, bigotry and violence on many sides.” Trump was condemned from many sides himself, even by many Republicans, but the damage was done. He’d excused and thus egged on the terrorists at the moment when he could have stopped them in their tracks.

In Beyond Charlottesville, McAuliffe looks at the forces and events that led to the tragedy in Charlottesville, including the vicious murder of Heather Heyer and the death of two state troopers in a helicopter accident. He doesn’t whitewash Virginia history and discusses a KKK protest over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. He takes a hard real-time behind-the-scenes look at the actions of everyone on that fateful August 12, including himself, to see what could have been done. He lays out what was done afterwards to prevent future Charlottesvilles—and what still needs to be done as America in general and Virginia in particular continue to grapple with their history of racism.

Beyond Charlottesville will be the definitive account of an infamous chapter in our history, seared indelibly into memory, sure to be cited for years as a crucial reference point in the long struggle to fight racism, extremism and hate.

About Terry McAuliffe

TERRY MCAULIFFE served as Governor of Virginia from 2014 to 2018 and as Chair of the National Governors Association from 2016 to 2017. A former Chairman of the Democratic National Committee, from 2001 to 2005, McAuliffe’s first book, What A Party! (Thomas Dunne Books) hit #5 on the New York Times list and #1 on the Washington Post list.

About John Lewis

Congressman John Lewis was a leader in the American Civil Rights Movement. He was chairman of the Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) and played a key role in the struggle to end segregation. Despite more than 40 arrests, physical attacks, and serious injuries, John Lewis remained a devoted advocate of the philosophy of nonviolence. He is co-author of the first comics work ever to win the National Book Award, the #1 New York Times bestselling graphic novel memoir trilogy MARCH, written with Andrew Aydin and illustrated by Nate Powell. He is also the recipient of numerous awards from national and international institutions including the Lincoln Medal, the John F. Kennedy "Profile in Courage" Lifetime Achievement Award, and the NAACP Spingarn Medal, among many others. He lives in Atlanta, GA.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Stephanie on December 08, 2019

It's true that those of us with White privilege will never truly understand what it's like to be a person of color in this racist society, and it's also true that we can never again be silent about the existing racism in this country. Now is the time to act. Act with love and tolerance.......more

Goodreads review by Lance on October 21, 2019

As a book recounting the events of Charlottesville in 2017 from the hindsight vantage point of Terry McAuliffe, the governor at the time, the book was interesting. As a book representing a "Taking a Stand Against White Nationalism" and moving "Beyond Charlottesville", it felt disingenuous and disapp......more

Goodreads review by Steven on May 11, 2024

AN INSIGHTFUL (YET FRIGHTENING) PERSPECTIVE ON THE ‘UNITE THE RIGHT’ RALLY Terry McAuliffe was Governor of Virginia from 2018-2018. He wrote in the introductory section of this 2019 book about the events of August 2017, “When I hung up with President Trump that day, there was no question in my mind t......more

Goodreads review by KristinCams on August 30, 2019

Much of this book reads more as Mr. McAuliffe's praise of how he handled things before/during/after the events at Charlottesville than an in depth look at the how and whys of what happened there. I read it in a few hours--it is not a difficult read--but at the end I was left feeling like Mr. McAulif......more

Goodreads review by Roberta on November 06, 2019

Although the content was interesting and his heart is in the right place, sadly McAuliffe is not the greatest writer.......more