Mitch Landrieu
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Mitch Landrieu is an American politician and lawyer. He was born and raised in New Orleans. He is a graduate of Catholic University (in Washington D.C.), and earned a law degree from Loyola University. He is a member of the Democratic Party. His career includes Representative in the Louisiana House näytä lisää of Representatives for 16 years; Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana (2004 - 2010), Mayor of New Orleans, Louisiana (since 2010). He is the author of, In the Shadow of Statues: A White Southerner Confronts History, published March 2018. (Bowker Author Biography) näytä vähemmän
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In The Shadow Of Statues 1 kappale
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Speeches of Note: An Eclectic Collection of Orations Deserving of a Wider Audience (2018) — Kertoja, eräät painokset — 51 kappaletta
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- Syntymäaika
- 1960-08-16
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- USA
- Maa (karttaa varten)
- USA
- Syntymäpaikka
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Koulutus
- BA (political science) The Catholic University of America
JD from Loyola University Law School - Ammatit
- Mayor of New Orleans (2010-2018)
Lieutenant Governor of Louisiana (2004-2010) - Suhteet
- Landrieu, Moon (father)
Landrieu, Mary (sister)
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Mitch Landrieu served as mayor of America's most famous and loved Southern city, New Orleans. The accomplishments of his administration are legion: rebuilding the city after Katrina, restoring faith in government after a corrupt administration,, leading a recovery from bankruptcy. As a leader, he succeeded by almost any measure.
Despite those challenges, however, his biggest accomplishment was to look racism and hatred in its ugly face and confront it in a public, meaningful and substantial, Culture changing way. He initiated and oversaw the removal of statues of Civil War leaders revered by many white Southerners, statues that were erected in the first place, not as monuments to the traitors they depicted, but as monuments to the idea of slavery, injustice and racial hatred. The removal of these monuments represented a repudiation of the ideas for which these people stood and of the way their bigotry continues to play out in the minds of many, both in the South and the North, today.
Like all moral leaders, Landrieu faced hatred, threats, criticism, and every other form of vile behavior that can bring no pride to humanity.
This book traces the struggle to do the right thing, the moral thing by spending a great many of its pages discussing the background, the context in which the final removal of the monuments took place. It is not a story about a courageous mayor or a Southern city confronting hatred so much as it is a story about what America in general could do, needs to do, must do about the long standing moral cancer we continue to endure because we lack the moral fiber to finally and permanently put an end to it.… (lisätietoja)