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The former governor of Virginia tells the behind-the-scenes story from the violent “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville-and shows how exactly we can prevent other Charlottesvilles from happening.

When Governor Terry McAuliffe hung up the phone around the afternoon of the violent “Unite the proper” rally in Charlottesville, he was sure Donald Trump would do the right thing as president: condemn the white supremacists who’d on the subject of Beyond Charlottesville: Going for a Stand Against White Nationalism descended on the college city and who’d caused McAuliffe to declare circumstances of crisis that morning. He didn’t. Instead Trump declared there was “hatred, bigotry and assault on many edges.” Trump was condemned from many edges himself, also by many Republicans, but the damage was performed. He’d excused and therefore egged on the terrorists at this time when he could possess stopped them within their tracks.

In Beyond Charlottesville, McAuliffe looks at the forces and events that resulted in the tragedy in Charlottesville, including the vicious murder of Heather Heyer and the death of two state troopers within a helicopter incident. He doesn’t whitewash Virginia history and discusses a KKK protest over the removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee. He takes a hard real-time behind-the-scenes look at the actions of everybody on that fateful August 12, including himself, to find out what might have been completed. He lays out what was done afterwards to avoid future Charlottesvilles-and what still needs to be done as America in general and Virginia specifically continue steadily to grapple using their history of racism.

Beyond Charlottesville will be the definitive accounts of the infamous chapter in our history, seared indelibly into memory space, sure to be cited for a long time as an essential reference point in the long struggle to combat racism, extremism and hate.