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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann
54 reviews
emmaemooney's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Racism, Murder, and Alcohol
ashaberstroh's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Genocide and Murder
Moderate: Alcoholism, Violence, and Colonisation
zsabella's review against another edition
4.5
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Racism, Violence, Murder, and Colonisation
Moderate: Child death, Domestic abuse, Hate crime, Grief, Medical trauma, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail
mariakureads's review against another edition
4.5
There's a lot of missing information when it comes to Native Americans and US history-One can guess that a lot more than we probably are aware of, thanks partly to this book. I had no idea, none, that this systematic discriminations and killings were happening Oklahoma and to the Osage in such a cold blooded way until this book.
This book was so well researched that I can't imagine the years and the time needed to put this together but I was left with a lot of emotion and some questions which I'm sure Grann was too as he researched and put this together because it's oddly fascinating that this happened for as long as it did but there's really no limit to man's greed and for a lot of the guilty, their greed exceeded what I could have imagined.
This book highlights how a group of people, men and women, were able to plan and execute murders for their greed and how deep that corruption ran even as the Osage were asking and requesting for help with no avail from the government until the amount of the mysterious deaths was too much to overlook.
I'm a ball of emotions still, hours after I finished this, to really put into words how I'm flabbergasted and tensely in awe of this because it's not just distant past. A lot of the surviving members are still having to deal with this portion of their history, in a familial and at larger community aspect, because of how deep the corruption was that in some cases it was the White spouses that were involved and that's something that is deplorable and I have a hard time trying to rationalize that.
Grann did an amazing job of balancing historical information and providing it such a written way that spoke of the Osage's civilization with respect to race, perspective, culture, and colonialism.
Graphic: Death, Violence, Murder, and Colonisation
Moderate: Alcoholism
alexisgarcia's review against another edition
4.75
Graphic: Alcoholism, Death, Genocide, Racism, Terminal illness, Toxic relationship, Violence, Grief, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Alcohol, and Classism
hi_itsnatty's review against another edition
5.0
Graphic: Addiction, Alcoholism, Body horror, Domestic abuse, Drug abuse, Emotional abuse, Genocide, Gun violence, Hate crime, Misogyny, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Suicidal thoughts, Suicide, Toxic relationship, Violence, Forced institutionalization, Police brutality, Medical content, Kidnapping, Grief, Religious bigotry, Medical trauma, Suicide attempt, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, Gaslighting, Alcohol, Colonisation, and Injury/Injury detail
amberboo61997's review against another edition
4.25
I believe the book is a good read even if a common critique is its lack of descriptive details into certain parts or aspects of the subject matter. It's a good introduction if you want to look into American stories hidden or deleted from history by the "winners" and shows how a government organization such as the FBI began and operated on its own self-serving needs.
Graphic: Death, Genocide, Hate crime, Racial slurs, Racism, Torture, Violence, and Murder
Moderate: Physical abuse, Medical content, and Medical trauma
Minor: Alcoholism and Domestic abuse
aliciaurbain's review against another edition
4.0
Graphic: Alcoholism, Child death, Death, Emotional abuse, Racism, Toxic relationship, Violence, Car accident, Death of parent, Murder, and Classism
caroline_123's review against another edition
4.5
Moderate: Alcoholism, Death, Drug use, Racism, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail
hanyaya's review
4.5
Graphic: Death, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Death of parent, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Colonisation
Moderate: Alcoholism, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Terminal illness, and Toxic relationship