*The author of "24 Hours in Charlottesville"* provides an accurate account of the January 6 riots through never-before-heard stories of those who were there.
News goes beyond mainstream reporting to reveal important facts about the white nationalist movement in the United States.**
This thrilling narrative reconstructs what it was really like in and around the Capitol during those 24 hours.- Lawmakers tell stories of being put on gas masks and evacuated to safe rooms.
- Police officers remember that the rebels were screaming at them and calling them traitors.
- Employees remember that they were “walking over pools of blood” as they ran for their lives.
A young Asian-American employee recalls locking herself in a room a few feet away from rioters, mentally preparing herself to be raped.- A cleaning crew, mostly black, began cleaning the blood of insurrectionists from the marble floor of the Capitol even before the building was officially secured.
News's sources include original interviews, court documents, first-hand accounts, the U.S. Capitol Historical Society's Oral History Project on the Insurrection, and the work of Tim Heafey, chief investigator of the Congressional Select Committee on the Events of January 6.
