Fallen Idols

A timely and lively look at the act of toppling monuments that explores the vital question of how a society remembers—and confronts—the past.

An Economist Best Book of the Year

In 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 imper...