SPECIAL NOTE: Politics and Prose is offering a 10% discount to Smithsonian Associates ticket-holders.Purchase your copy of Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments by Erin L.Norton & Company) is available for purchase. Her new book Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public Monuments (W. Thompson, a professor of art crime at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, is a leading expert in the aesthetic, legal, political, and social issues involved in such battles. Capitol-and explores the surprising motivations behind such contemporary flashpoints as the toppling of a statue of Columbus at the Minnesota State Capitol in 2020. Thompson as she traces the turbulent history of American monuments and its ironies-starting with the enslaved Black man who helped make the statue of Freedom that still sits atop the U.S. Why do we care so much about statues? And who gets to decide which ones should stay up and which should come down? Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long-ignored hunks of marble others form armed patrols to defend them. A timely and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America.
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