{"product_id":"monument-avenue-9781911422143","title":"Monument Avenue","description":"\u003cp\u003eA powerful photographic record of the destruction of Virginias most famous Confederate landmarks   Contains significant commentaries by news and broadcast media   Brian Rose reflects on his own history as a native Virginian and the roles played by his forebears in the Antebellum South  If Richmond VA represented the historic heart of the Confederacy  then Monument Avenue was meant to memorialise its soul. The avenue was conceived in the 1870s  when the city elected to build a memorial to General Robert E Lee. It was not until 1890  however  that the massive monument was unveiled. Over the succeeding decades  Lee was joined by statues commemorating other leading Confederate military and political figures  JEB Stuart  Jefferson Davis  Stonewall Jackson and Matthew Fontaine Maury. Almost from the moment they were erected  the Confederate monuments  as symbols of white supremacy  were the focus of controversy and protest. The climax came in the summer of 2020 when Black Lives Matter protesters  outraged by the death of George Floyd  converged on the avenue to vent their fury. On July 10th  Jefferson Davis was dragged from his pedestal. Two days later  Brian Rose packed up his cameras in New York and drove back to his home state to document the last days of the grand boulevard of the Lost Cause. En route  he reflected on his own history and the roles played by his forebears in the Antebellum South.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45792406044725,"sku":"ByrdShop_1911422146","price":239.53,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781911422143.jpg?v=1784748780","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/monument-avenue-9781911422143","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}