From the cement platform above the field-house steps, I recognized her right away, an older woman who had a fiery presence in local politics. This book is a fascinating look at race and the history of the American South, from slavery to Civil War to Civil Rights. Chicago Tribune. Discover Book Depository's huge selection of Mitch Landrieu books online. The evolution of Mr. Landrieu’s thoughts on the statues and their cumulative effect on society is really a journey of discovery. Broadmoor Reviewed in the United States on October 15, 2019. She had gone to Loyola after high school at Ursuline Academy, the same high school all five of my sisters and both of my daughters would attend through middle school. His book, “Our battlefield is on the street and in the heart. “[Mitch Landrieu] has done something, in his speech and his book, that other politicians should emulate. See 2 questions about In the Shadow of Statues…, HBO's Real Time with Bill Maher: Featured Books and Authors, 42 New and Upcoming Historical Fiction Novels. .orange-text-color {font-weight:bold; color: #FE971E;}Enjoy features only possible in digital – start reading right away, carry your library with you, adjust the font, create shareable notes and highlights, and more. As I stood there, she began yelling profanities. There was a problem loading your book clubs. Mitch Landrieu was mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018. My parents were both serious young Catholics. My grandpa, Joseph Geoffrey Landrieu, had a third-grade education and worked for the public utility company, then called NOPSI, in one of the power stations. Committed to Rummel's policy no matter how long it took, Twomey was a driven Jesuit on the right side of history. He tells his life story as well as the trauma of Hurricane Katrina. Inducing change in a largely change resistant environment is hard. Reviewed in the United States on August 14, 2018. Can anyone who has read it tell me if there are any sketchy bits? —Newsweek .orange-text-color {color: #FE971E;} Discover additional details about the events, people, and places in your book, with Wikipedia integration. But let's not be so cynical that we overlook the issue of race solely because someone in the public square is raising it. Its title aside, Mayor Mitch Landrieu’s first book is not primarily about his decision to take down New Orleans' most prominent Jim Crow-era monuments. "Your daddy ruined the city." Current events led me to reexamine my own beliefs and to then do a 180 turn regarding the Confederacy and the Civil War. Very refreshing to see an author be brutally honest with this country's history basically taking ownership... also actively searching for answers and new direction moving forward. Split into five essays, only number one and five actually deal with the statues to any length. Mitch Landrieu, currently mayor of New Orleans and formerly Lt Governor of Louisiana, has been mentioned as a dark horse, lurking on the edges of the political landscape. Once I learned the real history of these statues, I knew there was only path forward, and that meant making straight what was crooked, making right what was wrong. We all have so far to go. Dad graduated from Loyola two years ahead of Mom. My father, Uncle Joe, and their parents would by any definition have been classified as working-class poor, but from everything Dad has told me, his childhood was happy. The truth is under Landrieu New Orleans has rapidly gentrified, with its black population declining and forced to the West Bank. Dr. Francis received a Presidential Medal of Freedom from President George W. Bush for his work in rebuilding Xavier after Hurricane Katrina. Symbols matter. To me, these statues harkened back to an ugly past and had no place in a forward-looking, inclusive city. Race is a soundtrack that stays with me. Louisiana's governor at the time was Jimmie Davis, a country-western entertainer famous for his song "You Are My Sunshine." His story about how he reached that decision and how he learned the history of the statues as well how they are seen by people of color. Like the unbound citizen in Plato's Cave, he strives towards enlightenment. Mitch Landrieu, potentially a rising Democratic star, has taken his first real step toward a national run. --Walter Isaacson,#1 New York Times bestselling author of Leonardo Da Vinci and Steve JobsThe New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. Magnified under the current climate of the US, 南北戦争の銅像移設問題に関して当事者が記す稀少な資料として興味深い。学術的な内容ではないが、その分率直な見解が記されているのがよいと思う。, The Broken Ladder: How Inequality Affects the Way We Think, Live, and Die, © 1996-2021, Amazon.com, Inc. or its affiliates. Current events led me to reexamine my own beliefs and to then do a 180 turn regarding the Confederacy and the Civil War. “Evocative” —POLITICO Magazine If he governed the U.S. as he did New Orleans, we would all be better off. Unlike my dad's family, the Satterlees were comfortably middle class; my mother was born on the corner of South Prieur Street and General Pershing, just across the street from the house where she would live most of her life. .orange-text-color {font-weight:bold; color: #FE971E;}View high quality images that let you zoom in to take a closer look. Really recommend it to everyone. Inside the Carnival: Unmasking Louisiana Politics, The New Jim Crow (Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness - 10th Anniversary Edition), Memorials to Shattered Myths: Vietnam to 9/11, Caste (Oprah's Book Club): The Origins of Our Discontents. A brief book commissioned by a mayor (there is no way he wrote this) who was vaulted to moderate political stardom for defeating inanimate objects. Thus, the statues of Robert E Lee upon a huge pedestal and Jefferson Davis in a prominent point on Canal Street, one of the city’s main thoroughfares, have seemed so incongruous. "Moon the Coon!" Sixty years later, Freedom Riders coming to New Orleans were beaten to a bloody pulp. I'm trying to read up on possible Democratic candidates for the 2020 presidential race. "That explains it all!" My father was a pragmatist, and a pro-business New Deal-style Democrat. While this book has been attacked by bigots, xenophobes and white nationalists, It must be noted that every one star rating on Amazon has been submitted by UNVERIFIED purchasers. I think he would do an awesome job. Mitch Landrieu, currently mayor of New Orleans and formerly Lt Governor of Louisiana, has been mentioned as a dark horse, lurking on the edges of the political landscape. "There has been a threat made against your life," he said gravely. The house was twelve feet wide and fifty feet deep and faced a graveyard. Mitch Landrieu comes from one of the South’s most storied political families. Our payment security system encrypts your information during transmission. As we entertain visitors from around the world along our beautiful riverfront, it is hard to fathom that at this very spot, ships emptied their human cargo from Senegal, marching their captives down the street to what is now one of our famous hotels, but there are no historical markers on that path. Touching on the War on Poverty, David Duke, Hurricane Katrina, and the removal of Lost Cause statues, Landrieu reflects on what New Orleans is, was and could be. This book was too much like a political campaign ad for my taste. "Say, baby, how's your daddy? When one learns all the facts, it's really a no brainer. She kept on protesting after that. As an African American I am moved to tears and inspired by the author’s example. Select a location to see product availability, [{"displayPrice":"$8.75","priceAmount":8.75,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"8","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"75","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"yyhiDrC1pGRmmQfLQTVn%2Bk2vU4vmo1vK7IkP9q%2BtWhWJ8wtoaLnzXXkPz%2FWY6Rfz4H%2FCtXgG0lLHqSUhPZ9OlL1iILY%2BO5SbHIg1ly8Krbu6k8jnte7SBZx8b5WdDaApsSVELVtf9F70%2FA%2Fj88Z3w8CYfJMOeMC5T9SegD5EUJsr5zCwSn5Hiw%3D%3D"},{"displayPrice":"$6.60","priceAmount":6.60,"currencySymbol":"$","integerValue":"6","decimalSeparator":".","fractionalValue":"60","symbolPosition":"left","hasSpace":false,"showFractionalPartIfEmpty":true,"offerListingId":"UTNDyFRKxvxWMCggV3uHfh40UKEX35stp1icZB3I9y2b6fL6wdgyS%2FIDtZwYkDtMmBke6ELYiZE%2F6Rs2lhj9dT0mXHOViafXBTFr8pli%2FVXgrhz650sLK%2FHhZ90e5T%2B8rm7qHfQCG1zyy3RjA2pXnkmSkBx5FP9aXP21s4r0sJ6WdI8lxRBx3vrcSiJg9ih9"}]. New Orleans is where black Creoles launched a legal challenge to segregated public transportation, a case that led to the 1896 Supreme Court decision Plessy v. Ferguson, which enshrined Jim Crow's "separate but equal" into law. 26 quotes from Mitch Landrieu: 'These statues are not just stone and metal. Mitch comes off as the next Bill Clinton but without the sleaze. Part memoir, part, political history, and part expose on race relations in Louisiana. Then she bolted off. Important read: a man confronts his privilege to make a difference. The Francises had six children; we all grew up together, the Francis kids a daily reminder that the racist things some of our white friends said about black people were untrue according to what my eyes had seen and my ears had heard. We take pride in our accurate descriptions. But a backlash was building, and about to catch me. It looks like WhatsApp is not installed on your phone. If this is not a pro-life issue, what on God’s earth is it?”, “The statues were symbols. To see what your friends thought of this book, The other two answers are spot on here. The New Orleans mayor who removed the Confederate statues confronts the racism that shapes us and argues for white America to reckon with its past. In the 1950s he published a mimeographed newsletter, "Christ's Blueprint for the South," which was years ahead of Southern elected officials in advocating for greater social justice for African Americans. "He is sending this city to hell!" A passionate, personal, urgent book from the man who sparked a national debate. Mitch Landrieu was the mayor of New Orleans from 2010 to 2018. Hundreds of thousands of souls were sold here, then shipped up the Mississippi River to lives of forced labor, of misery, of rape, of torture. Mitch Landrieu, mayor of New Orleans, gives, I think, an honest and down-to-earth account of his life, from his youth growing up in New Orleans, to his early tangles in state legislature with neo-Nazi David Duke, to Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath, and finally, to the removal of the four Confederate monuments from New Orleans in 2017. Things I learned and understand better because of this book: The story of how Mitch Landrieu the mayor of New Orleans came to realization and conviction that four Civil War monuments commemorating the Confederacy should be taken down. I chose this book for our book club and we all agreed it was one of the very best book each of us had ever read. “Eloquence, power and humility” — I would recommend this to anyone. We really did not learn our American History but it is never too late. It's important to understand WHY we think and feel the way we do. In the book, Landrieu traces Duke’s rise through state politics in the 1980s and 1990s — the two served alongside one … The nickname "Moon" was apparently given to Dad from Uncle Joe early on, that's all we know. Mitch Landrieu is one of those uncommon political leaders in the American South who has discovered the facts of our usually blood-drenched racial history as well as who agrees to encounter those unpleasant realities. It seemed like it was included to be accurate to what happened while trying to avoid being offensive. I now know that he and they were on the wrong side of history and they were wrong. We are sorry. Does he descend back into the cave, to inform and release the others, knowing in their fear and ignorance they may tear him limb-from-limb? Father Twomey hosted organizational meetings for early civil rights activists. Now, he stands in the brilliance of new knowledge. Landrieu writes in an upbeat, readable style and his descriptions of his career in New Orleans politics are interesting. Please try again later. barked a man when I picked up the phone as a kid, long before caller ID. Part memoir, part, political history, and part expose on race relations in Louisiana. These monuments purposefully celebrate a fictional, ... Books by Mitch Landrieu. I have no clear memory of my father talking about the hate calls we got; maybe I've blotted it all out, because the more vivid, lasting memory of my adolescence is jumping into the car with my dad on Saturdays as he drove around the city, visiting playgrounds, police stations, fire stations, and city work sites. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account. He was one of the first two African American students at Loyola University New Orleans law school in the 1950s, where he and my father met and forged their lifelong friendship. I live across from the Faubourg Treme, birthplace of Jazz and America's oldest integrated neighborhood. 455 talking about this. Contact All American Speakers Bureau to inquire about speaking fees and availability, and book the best keynote … Art and music engage the human heart and transcend time; sadly, so does hatred. I have a lot of respect for his determination and the moral foundation that drove his actions. A speaker and best-selling author, Landrieu … "He's ruining this city, just like his father. Welcome back. Please try again. I'm struck by how often people describe others first by the color of their skin-black people, African Americans, people of color. Landrieu has shown the way.” Includes initial monthly payment and selected options. An enlightening look at how race is the dark shadow cast over American life. He never knew or felt that he was poor. A white politician is an ideal messenger for an historical account of race relations in the Deep South and the rest of the U.S. From the courageous former mayor of New Orleans who suffered scathing attacks and physical threats for removing the Confederate statues in the city, an admirable and frank memoir that is quite uneven in the telling. Item couldn't be saved. But God had other plans for her. We often had guests in those years, too. Verna was one of seven children born to Kent Satterlee and Olga Macheca. I would only add that the N word appears as "the N word." His memoir, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, was published in 2018. Full content visible, double tap to read brief content. But above all else, they were just friends. Now, it is just tourist attraction number 2. More humans were sold into slavery in New Orleans than anywhere else in the country. Miraculously, my grandparents steered both sons to Jesuit, the leading Catholic high school for boys. We need to think about what is said here. Thanks to black friends and many others,... New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu gave an important speech on southern history upon the occasion of removing a statue of Robert E. Lee. This book was largely autobiographical, but also included many interesting historical, social and political insights. Landrieu not only provides some autobiographic details, but he also removed the statues in New Orleans. The story of how Mitch Landrieu the mayor of New Orleans came to realization and conviction that four Civil War monuments commemorating the Confederacy should be taken down. "The most important thing to remember is that no one can take away from you anything that you learn," Norman Francis told me when I was just a boy. I was in a churn of confusion, but what I felt more than anything was pity. Great book! Maurice Edwin Landrieu was born in 1930, the younger of two brothers. He tells his life story as well as the trauma of Hurricane Katrina. This book, while commenting on his battle with New Orleans’ Confederate statues really shines as a look at his form of governing. This item could not be removed from your list. she shouted. "He better watch out!" The 12 best lines from Mitch Landrieu’s remarkable speech on race Analysis by Chris Cillizza , CNN Editor-at-large Updated 2:26 PM EDT, Thu August 17, 2017 I had seen her on TV news in the late sixties, protesting when my father was a councilman-at-large and they took down the Confederate flag in the City Council chambers. —Time It's a quick read with interesting sidestories about Ray Nagin, important lessons on how to deal with the likes of David Duke, and decidedly strong impression of Trump. That day at practice, I joked about the death threat as guys came into the locker room; everyone thought it was cool. I was thirteen when the woman yelled those words at me, a newly minted eighth grader at Jesuit High School, where my father had been a star athlete a quarter century before. Dad entered Loyola University in 1948 on a baseball scholarship, where he met Father Louis J. Twomey, S.J., an important mentor. Growing up, I was vaguely aware of my dad taking heat over politics, but when he sat down for dinner with us, which he did nearly every night, he didn't mention rabble-rousers who jeered at City Council meetings. In my mind, it is America’s most unique city. Having lived in Louisiana (as an out of stater, better able to objectively view the social and political landscapes that shape the state), I understand how important those statues were to the identity of the city and empathize with the struggle he went through as Mayor. Beauregard of statue fame once lived there. I take heart that many white people have traveled far in their views on race. . Bring your club to Amazon Book Clubs, start a new book club and invite your friends to join, or find a club that’s right for you for free. This isn’t solely about Confederate statues—it’s about race, class, and the intersection of the history we think we know with its actual veracity. .orange-text-color {font-weight:bold; color: #FE971E;}Ask Alexa to read your book with Audible integration or text-to-speech. Mitch Landrieu was the 61st Mayor of New Orleans. The ties we had with the Francis family-and other black families as my dad got deeper into politics-shaped my family's rejection of the racial mentality of the Old South. Well worth reading to learn more about politics in Louisiana and New Orleans. His father, Moon Landrieu, was mayor of New Orleans from 1970 to 1978 and a leading civil rights pioneer. It’s an important book for everyone in America to read, because it shows how intellectual honesty can lead to moral clarity."

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