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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

January 8, 2019 by narfna 4 Comments

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 […]

Filed Under: History, Non-Fiction Tagged With: #history, David Grann, journalism, killers of the flower moon, murder, narfna, non fiction, read harder challenge 2019, the osage murders and the birth of the fbi, true crime

narfna's CBR11 Review No:4 · Genres: History, Non-Fiction · Tags: #history, David Grann, journalism, killers of the flower moon, murder, narfna, non fiction, read harder challenge 2019, the osage murders and the birth of the fbi, true crime ·
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