Smashing Statues: The Rise and Fall of America's Public MonumentsAn urgent and fractious national debate over public monuments has erupted in America. Some people risk imprisonment to tear down long ignored hunks of marble; others form armed patrols to defend them. Why do we care so much about statues? And who gets to decide which ones should stay up and which should come down? Erin L. Thompson, the country's leading expert in the tangled aesthetic, legal, political, and social issues involved in such battles