Non-TC Books With TC Info Concealed Inside Them

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Mistakes Were Made (But Not by Me): Why We Justify Foolish Beliefs, Bad Decisions, and Hurtful Acts has nothing to do with TC, but there's a footnote tucked away on one page that casually reveals that Brad Page, who you read about in The Dead Girl, may have his conviction overturned for the murder of his girlfriend because someone came forward and reported that she saw two men -- not Brad -- forcing her into a van on the day she disappeared.

More on Brad and Roberta: http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Be...

Has anyone else stumbled across anything like this in books unrelated to TC?

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EVERYTHING YOU EVER WANTED TO KNOW ABOUT HOMOSEXUALITY BUT WERE AFRAID TO ASK by Senator John Briggs is a book I would like to get a gander at. The good Senator, namesake of the notorious Briggs Initiative, penned this volume to push his anti-gay agenda in the mid-1970s. It's a bit of a print-format hate crime in itself, because he wanted to have gays excluded from a variety of professions to keep them from "recruiting" children into the gay population. In the course of this book, he lumped all gays everywhere in with Dean Corll and Patrick WAYNE Kearney, two gay male serial killers who were much in the headlines at the time. The description I found of this book in The Mayor of Castro Street: The Life and Times of Harvey Milk says it includes photos of the victims of Kearney and his partner David Hill -- the only book I am aware of that promises to tell you who the victims are. Of course I can't find that dang thing anywhere online, probably because it constitutes hate speech.

[K.A.]

Well, this one might qualify: Blood of the Prophets: Brigham Young and the Massacre at Mountain Meadows

It's a historical look at Brigham Young and the Mormon settlement of the area that would become Utah, but centers around circumstances leading up to the 1857 Mountain Meadows Massacre. I gave it 5 stars; I really like Will Bagley's writing, but it is in-depth and a weighty tome, not for the faint of heart.