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

David Grann

Start date: July 12, 2018

Finish date: August 8, 2018

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Jul 10, 2018 Sonnet rated it really liked it · review of another edition

Shelves: read-2015-2019, historical, mystery, non-fiction

A very good book that focuses on a little-known part of American history--the Reign of Terror in Osage County, OK. Grann does a masterful job of telling the story and personalizing each person in the historical accounts. The reader may suspect certain people, but the real story is even more elaborate and complicated than suspected. The absolute horror that something like this could happen--especially how and why it happened--without it being a commonly known episode in American history is dishea ...more

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Sep 30, 2018 Geoffrey Nutting rated it really liked it

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Everyone knows about J. Edgar Hoover. Few people know about the Osage Murders. It should probably be the other way around.
It is amazing how many scams the US Government has helped promote (mostly to do with expansion of the country, the Homesteading Act(s) and the railroads). It's amazing how little they did to ensure the rule of law in the areas they opened up, and how ready the US is to ignore treaties they made with the Indians when it becomes inconvenient.
A detailed look at the Osage murders ...more

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Aug 22, 2017 Teresa rated it it was amazing

I really enjoyed the book. I was kind of surprised that I had never heard of these murders before. It was such a mass murder, you would have thought that you would have thought that at least you would have heard of them before. It was kind of an eye opener of a book. Talking about the start of the FBI turned in with finding the murders killers and yet, not all of them.

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