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| Original Title: | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI |
| ISBN: | 0385534256 (ISBN13: 9780385534253) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Literary Awards: | Anthony Award for Best Critical/NonFiction Work (2018), Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime (2018), Andrew Carnegie Medal Nominee for Nonfiction (2018), National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction (2017), Spur Award for Best Western Historical Nonfiction (2018) Goodreads Choice Award Nominee for History & Biography (2017), Brooklyn Public Library Literary Prize Nominee for Nonfiction (2017) |
David Grann
ebook | Pages: 359 pages Rating: 4.09 | 109257 Users | 13391 Reviews
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| Title | : | Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI |
| Author | : | David Grann |
| Book Format | : | ebook |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 359 pages |
| Published | : | April 18th 2017 by Doubleday |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. History. Crime. True Crime. Mystery |
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In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, they began to be killed off. One Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, watched as her family was murdered. Her older sister was shot. Her mother was then slowly poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more Osage began to die under mysterious circumstances. In this last remnant of the Wild West—where oilmen like J. P. Getty made their fortunes and where desperadoes such as Al Spencer, “the Phantom Terror,” roamed – virtually anyone who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll surpassed more than twenty-four Osage, the newly created F.B.I. took up the case, in what became one of the organization’s first major homicide investigations. But the bureau was then notoriously corrupt and initially bungled the case. Eventually the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including one of the only Native American agents in the bureau. They infiltrated the region, struggling to adopt the latest modern techniques of detection. Together with the Osage they began to expose one of the most sinister conspiracies in American history. A true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history.Rating Of Books Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
Ratings: 4.09 From 109257 Users | 13391 ReviewsAssess Of Books Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
That we as a nation, less than one hundred years after the Osage Indian killings, have no collective memory of these events seems an intentional erasure. The truth of the killings would traumatize our school children and make every one of us search our souls, of that there is no doubt. David Grann shows us that the systematic killings of dozens of oil-wealthy Osage Indians were not simply the rogue deeds of a psychopath or two in a small town in Oklahoma. The tentacles of guilt and the politicsMalfeasance toward Osage Inherent in the System Intended to Protect Them[revised/improved May 15, 2017]In the 1870s, the United States government drove the Osage nation in herds onto a small reservation in Oklahoma, situated on a relatively small tract which was chosen because its rocky terrain was particularly unsuited to agriculture and thus undesirable to sooners arriving from the East to stake land claims.Forty years later, after the discovery of vast reserves of oil below this barren land,
This book was nominated for a lot of awards, but for me it didnt live up to its praise. The cold-blooded murders of the Osage American Indians was a tragic part of American history. Full of greed and racism. The book, however, was too long and repetitive. The greed behind the murders and the disregard for Osage lives was not enough for a full book. There wasnt much written about the birth of the FBI either. I would have liked to have seen more.I listened to the audiobook and wasnt impressed by
This is a powefrul book on murders committed on Osage people during the second decade of the 20th century. The author is an investigative journalist and does a tremendous job bringing this tragic story to the general public. I was astounded and could not put this book down...
Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann is a 2017 Doubleday publication. A Conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. Its the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic, and a daring beyond our reach. All conspiracies are the same taut story of men who find coherence in a criminal act- Don DelilloThis is a stunning historical true crime 'novel'
This book pieces together a brutal piece of history and unravels an ugly murder mystery. Its disturbing, depressing and, at least for me, not at all the fast moving read I was led to believe from some of the early reviews. Maybe its just me, but I had a difficult time sticking with it. There were so many people involved and random details tossed in that didnt seem to move things along that to me it seemed a little too over-stuffed and hard to follow at times. Perhaps it shouldve been a little
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