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“The world’s richest people per capita were becoming the world’s most murdered.” (Bingo #6!)

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

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American History is chock full of tales of terrible people doing terrible things protected by terrible governmental structures or terrible public servants. One of the benefits (drawbacks?) of my History degree and work in History museums is that I am not often surprised anymore with how terrible it truly all is, and I’ve got at least a passing familiarity with many of the darker chapters in our history. A few years ago when reviews of Killers of the Flower Moon started showing up on Cannonball […]

We have to be better than this

Killers of the Flower Moon: Oil, Money, Murder and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann

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An incredibly well-written account of yet another shameful episode in how white people treat others, Killers of the Flower Moon looks at the systematic murder and robbery of the Osage Indians in 1920’s Oklahoma. Having forced the Osage on to what was thought to be useless, unfertile ground, white Oklahomans were pissed when it turned out that said land turned out to be incredibly oil rich and that the Osage had retained the rights to the fortunes reaped from this in the original agreement to […]

History is a merciless judge

Killers of the Flower Moon by David Grann

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I first saw Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann on NPR’s Best Books of 2017. It is also a National Bestseller, a National Book Award Finalist, and just the kind of non-fiction that I would find interesting. However, with all the books out there, it took me some time to get around to reading it–which I finally did halfway through 2019. The Osage tribe was forced from their lands and confined to a barren part of Oklahoma. […]

Apparently this has been turned into a movie that sounds better than the book tbh

The Lost City of Z: A Tale of Deadly Obsession in the Amazon by David Grann

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This is the story of Percy Fawcett, a British explorer who went missing in the Amazon in the 1920s. It’s told by journalist David Grann, who follows Fawcett’s path in an effort to find out what happened to him. Unfortunately for Grann, and the book, he’s not nearly as interesting as the man whose steps he’s tracing — but he occupies way more content in the book. “Explorers are not, perhaps, the most promising people with whom to build a society. Indeed, some might say […]

An illuminating book about the grossness of human behavior.

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

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I went into this expecting the corruption, murder, institutional racism, etc. against the Osage Indians to be very bad, and I still somehow managed to come out of this book mindboggled. This book should be taught in schools, and it is heinous that these terrible things happened, and just as heinous that so many people covered it up, and practically erased it from history. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the US were the Osage. By sheer coincidence, after their tribe was […]



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