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 […]
“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