'Alex von Tunzelmann is one of the most gifted historians writing
today. Brilliant and trenchant, witty and wise, Fallen Idols is a
book you will adore, devour, and talk about to everyone you know.
Hesitate no longer; buy this book.' Suzannah Lipscomb, author,
award-winning historian and broadcaster 'Like all the best
historians von Tunzelmann uses the past to explain what the hell is
going on today. She does so with a flair, her signature mix of
scholarship and succinctness that is so compelling. If you want to
make sense of the statues debate, and the coming culture war over
our history, this is where you need to start.' Dan Snow 'A timely,
sparkling and often hilarious book.' Michael Wood In the past few
years, there has been a rush to topple statues. Across the United
States of America, the United Kingdom, Belgium and elsewhere, Black
Lives Matter protesters defaced and in some cases hauled down
statues of slaveholders, Confederate icons, and imperialists. In
Bristol, Edward Colston was knocked off his plinth and hurled into
the harbour. Robert E. Lee was covered in graffiti in Richmond,
Virginia. Christopher Columbus was toppled in Minnesota, burned and
thrown into a lake in Virginia, and beheaded in Massachusetts. King
Leopold II of the Belgians was set on fire in Antwerp and doused in
red paint in Ghent. Winston Churchill was daubed with the word
'racist' in London. The backlash from conservatives has been fast
and intense. Statues are one of the most visible forms of
historical storytelling, maybe the most visible. The stories we
tell are vital to how we as societies understand our past and make
our future. The ultimate question is: 'who controls history?'
FALLEN IDOLS tells the story of twelve toppled statues around the
world. It will look at why they were put up in the first place; the
stories they were intended to tell; the symbolism they came to
embody; and the manner and consequences of their removal. History
is not erased when statues are pulled down. If anything, it is
made.
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