Wesley Lowery
Author
Publisher
Allen Lane
Pub. Date
2023.
Physical Desc
240 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Barack Obama's election in 2008 was a moment of true, unabashed hope. But after two terms shadowed by a growing white supremacist movement, Obama was replaced by an openly nativist administration. In this book, Wesley Lowery places a decade of American carnage in historical context, uncovering the horror that racial violence has wrought in our era. As he looks to America's past to understand the rise of Donald Trump and the 'whitelash' following the...