Deborah Baker: Charlottesville: An American Story

A surge in neo-Nazism, images of burning tiki torches and the tragic death of a young counter-protester in Charlottesville, Virginia dominated the headlines in 2017.

In her work of recent history, Charlottesville: An American Story, Pulitzer Prize finalist Deborah Baker illuminates the people who recognised the rising threat and those who either didn’t see it or chose to ignore it. She uncovers the city’s forgotten history and recounts an uncannily similar event that took place on the same ground in the 1950s.

Hear Deborah bring the present into dialogue with the past to understand America’s founding myths, in conversation with Nick Bryant.