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Laddar... Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (utgåvan 2018)av David Grann (Författare)
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Killers of the Flower Moon is a very droll book. It is the kind of book that works best as an audiobook. The native Americans suffered terrible hardships and death by self-serving, self-justifying people with no help. The thing that is most annoying about the book is that the story just ended. The author did not offer any help to the family members of the murdered people. With all of the research he did, couldn't the author have found some resources for the family members of the wrongfully killed? What was the point of just ending the book? This review is not reviewing the people, it is a review of the book and the writing. Consequently only three stars were given to this book. The Osage story has received considerable attention thanks to David Grann's book and Martin Scorsese's movie. It's a story that deserves it, and that deserves to be told well. I can't speak to the movie I haven't seen but this book was an engaging read. It is half a horror story of racism perpetrated by immoral white people in power, and half a crime investigation story against powerful odds that formed an early case in the history of the FBI (but not their first case, as the subtitle implies). Grann diligently assembled content worthy of the best of the genre, but with some awkwardness. His personal story is reserved for the end rather than weaving it in as he goes along, with surprise twists that shouldn't have been held back that long. Key figures are referred to in ways such as 'the agent who posed as an insurance man' and mentioned multiple times without proper names, but he clearly shares those in the endnotes. These and other presentation and expression choices occasionally get in the way. Fortunately the facts being shared override them. The investigation story (which could only tackle a small proportion of the total murders) threatens to override the more important story of the tribe and the wrong that it suffered. Grann brings it full circle back to the tribe again and ends on the right note, though I think it needed at least one more chapter to zoom out even further - away from the Burkharts, away from the Osage and Oklahoma, to remind us that the abuses which happened here are not an anomaly in North American history. It also doesn't address the obvious question, was the oil a blessing or a curse?
De maand van de bloemendoder is een fascinerend en tegelijkertijd gruwelijk boek over de moordpartijen, discriminatie en uitbuiting van Osage indianen aan het begin van de 20e eeuw in Oklahoma. Nadat de Osage, zoals zoveel indianen in de Verenigde Staten, waren verjaagd naar een reservaat in Oklahoma, bleek hier olie gevonden te worden. Hierdoor werden de Osage opeens rijk. Echter dit betekende ook uitbuiting, discriminatie en vele moordpartijen. David Grann is jarenlang bezig geweest met onderzoek naar misstanden die plaatsvonden en De maand van de bloemendoder is het zeer boeiende eindresultaat hiervan...lees verder > Har bearbetningenHar som instuderingsbokPriserPrestigefyllda urvalUppmärksammade listor
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HTML:NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALIST ? NATIONAL BESTSELLER ? A twisting, haunting true-life murder mystery about one of the most monstrous crimes in American history, from the author of The Lost City of Z. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, the Osage rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions, and sent their children to study in Europe. Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. The family of an Osage woman, Mollie Burkhart, became a prime target. One of her relatives was shot. Another was poisoned. And it was just the beginning, as more and more Osage were dying under mysterious circumstances, and many of those who dared to investigate the killings were themselves murdered. As the death toll rose, the newly created FBI took up the case, and the young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to try to unravel the mystery. White put together an undercover team, including a Native American agent who infiltrated the region, and together with the Osage began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history. Look for David Grann??s new book, The Wager, coming in April 2 Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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Ann Marie Lee is the narrator of Part 1. In a calm, matter-of-fact, and almost pleasant tone, she introduces the listener to the Osage community and in particular, the family of Mollie Burkhart. Her voice is sometimes at odds with the gruesome nature of the violent murders that she recounts.
In part 2, Danny Campbell narrates the chapters detailing the murder investigations carried out by the newly revamped and renamed Federal Bureau of Investigation. This section of the book focuses on FBI Agent Tom White. Campbell employs the brisk tone one might associate with an old TV or radio crime show, however, his narration is tinged with a Midwestern accent that fits the agent and the Oklahoma setting.
Will Patton narrates Part 3, which recounts the author's own later investigation that discovered many and solved some additional crimes against the Osage. He found a much more widespread Reign of Terror than had been previously known. Patton's voice sounds older than that of Agent White, and he speaks in a rueful manner, showing his sorrow that justice was not better served, but also his determination to uncover everything he could.
Though the movie was excellently done, the book (as usual) is better. While the movie focuses primarily on the murders successfully prosecuted by the FBI, the book reveals the full extent of the many plots to rob the Osage of their rights, their money, and their lives. The depth, breadth, and depravity of the plots involving mostly white men from all levels of society is so insidious as to be barely comprehensible. ( )