{"product_id":"9780807020623","title":"24 Hours at the Capitol","description":"\u003cb\u003eThe \u003ci\u003e24 Hours in Charlottesville\u003c\/i\u003e author offers a minute-by-minute account of the January 6 riots through never-before-heard stories of those who were there\u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003eNeus goes beyond mainstream reporting to reveal important truths about the US white nationalist movement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis bracing account reconstructs what it was actually like in and around the Capitol during those 24 hours.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLawmakers recount donning gas masks and being evacuated to safe rooms. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePolice officers recall insurrectionists screaming at them and calling them traitors. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eStaffers remember “walking over pools of blood” as they ran for their lives. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA young Asian-American staffer recalls locking herself in a room just feet from the rioters, mentally preparing to be raped. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eA mostly Black janitorial staff began cleaning the blood of insurrectionists off the marble floor on the Capitol before the building was even officially secured. \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNeus’s sources include original interviews, court documents, firsthand accounts, the US Capitol Historical Society’s oral history project on the insurrection, and the work of Tim Heaphy, chief investigator of the congressional January 6 Select Committee.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eJanuary 6 was largely planned right out in the open, but lawmakers and government officials underestimated the threat in part because it was coming from white people. Neus examines the underlying racial implications of not only the attack itself, but also in the planning and coordination of the response.","brand":"Nora Neus","offers":[{"title":"Hardback","offer_id":47564034408660,"sku":"9780807020623","price":38.95,"currency_code":"CAD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1000\/9208\/files\/BNCImageAPI_2a556f1b-072a-4dc7-925e-05c27a5372e2.jpg?v=1771366656","url":"https:\/\/penguinshop.ca\/products\/9780807020623","provider":"Penguin Shop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}