{"product_id":"fallen-idols-9780063081673","title":"Fallen Idols","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eAn \u003cem\u003eEconomist \u003c\/em\u003eBest Book of the Year\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eIn this timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments, the popular historian and author of \u003cem\u003eBlood and Sand\u003c\/em\u003e explores the vital question of how a society remembers—and confronts—the past.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 2020, history came tumbling down. From the US and the UK to Belgium, New Zealand, and Bangladesh, Black Lives Matter protesters defaced, and in some cases, hauled down statues of Confederate icons, slaveholders, and imperialists. General Robert E. Lee, head of the Confederate Army, was covered in graffiti in Richmond, Virginia. Edward Colston, a member of Parliament and slave trader, was knocked off his plinth in Bristol, England, and hurled into the harbor. Statues of Christopher Columbus were toppled in Minnesota, burned and thrown into a lake in Virginia, and beheaded in Massachusetts. Belgian King Leopold II was set on fire in Antwerp and doused in red paint in Ghent. Winston\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"HarperCollins Publishers Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524281409879,"sku":"9780063081673","price":21.59,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780063081673.jpg?v=1731856163","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/fallen-idols-9780063081673","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}