Emmy-nominated journalist Nora Neus is here to discuss her illuminating new book 24 Hours in Charlottesville: An Oral History of the Stand Against White Supremacy. The book chronicles the events of 2017, where armed neo-Nazi demonstrators descended on the University of Virginia campus and downtown Charlottesville. Nora explains why she didn’t interview white nationalists for the book, how she found her subjects and sources, and how she navigated objective versus subjective truth while telling this story.
The Stacks Book Club selection for August is You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi. We will discuss the book on August 30th with Sam Sanders.
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Everything we talk about on today’s episode can be found below in the show notes and on Bookshop.org and Amazon.
- 24 Hours in Charlottesville
- Anderson Cooper 360° (CNN)
- CNN
- Only Plane in the Sky by Garrett M. Graff
- “The Short Stacks 21: Garrett M. Graff//Only Plane in the Sky” (The Stacks)
- “‘We’re the Only Plane in the Sky’” (Garrett M. Graff, Politico)
- “Trump says both sides to blame amid Charlottesville backlash” (Dan Merica, CNN)
- “Charlottesville: Race and Terror – VICE News Tonight on HBO” (Vice)
- Richard Spencer
- Jason Kessler
- “Biden: Charlottesville Was the ‘Moment I Knew I Had to Run” (NBC Chicago)
- Catherine Tung
- Beacon Press
- Waco by Jeff Guinn
- Waco Rising by Kevin Cook
- Koresh by Stephan Talty
- George Floyd
- “Corey Long, the Black Man Wielding a Flamethrower to Protect Another Man in Charlottesville, Va., Is Arrested” (Angela Helm, The Root)
- “An Image of Revolutionary Fire at Charlottesville” (Doreen St. Félix, The New Yorker)
- Assault of DeAndre Harris
- “Deandre Harris on Attack by White Supremacists in Charlottesville” (YouTube)
- “Jury finds rally organizers liable for the violence that broke out in Charlottesville” (James Doubek and Vanessa Romo, NPR)
- “Helicopter pilot in fatal Charlottesville crash lost control and lacked key training from state, NTSB says” (Michael Laris, The Washington Post)
- Terry McAuliffe
- Thomas Jefferson
- University of Virginia
- Monticello
- Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi
- “Pulitzer-Winning Photographer [Ryan Kelly] Made Charlottesville Photo On His Last Day On The Job” (Ailsa Chang, NPR)
- Muhammad Najem, War Reporter by Muhammad Najem and Nora Neus
- Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
- Making #Charlottesville by Aniko Bodroghkozy
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