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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI

David Grann

Start date: June 1, 2018

Finish date: June 30, 2018

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Apr 03, 2019 Puck rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: people-of-colour, nonfiction, favorites-2019

The blood cries out from the ground.

Who wants to read a book that sets your blood on fire with anger? No? Too bad, because this true crime account is too important to ignore. "Killers of the Flower Moon" reads like a exciting mystery, but this story is cold historical nonfiction, which makes it all the worse.

Thanks to David Grann's deep investigation of a dark piece American history, a bloody conspiracy is again brought to light. Behind the murders of more than 30 Native Americans in the ...more

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Mar 05, 2019 Nanci rated it it was ok

Shelves: non-fiction

This is such an important story and one I had no idea happened to this group of Native Americans. It is a sad, horrific account that normally would have evoked all types of emotions in me, but the writing just didn't get me there. It was annoyingly repetitive and I had to drag myself to finish it. Just way too much telling and not enough showing. It is an important story and I learned a lot, but I would have preferred a different format. ...more

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Jun 17, 2018 Ray rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: non-fiction, recommendation, audio-book

Oof. This book reads like a best friend whispering the worries of another one of their friends at a midnight sleepover. It made me ask myself, "How couldn't I have known?". It's painful, but factual. It's history, but frightening how similar some of these narratives are to events continuing today. I think the scariest part was predicting what happened next, how the media covered the story, how the locals reacted, and how it's possible these stories were never taught in history classes. It's so e ...more

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Aug 24, 2017 Toni FGMAMTC rated it really liked it

Shelves: nonfiction, fbi-cia-atf-dea-doj, history, true-crime, murder-mystery, native-american-american-indian

This book is about the Osage murders. Oil was found on the Osage land. They became beyond wealthy. A big conspiracy to take their wealth away from them came in to play. They were appointed guardians and then murdered. The book does a good job of trying to figure out the tangled web. It's very interesting and majorly tragic. ...more

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