David Grann
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Killers of the Flower Moon
Killers of the Flower Moon examines how the Osage Nation’s oil wealth, created amid dispossession and made vulnerable by guardianship, became the setting for a campaign of murder. It follows the investigation that exposed part of William Hale’s network and asks what justice can recover when courts, records, and public memory leave much unresolved.
11 chapters
The Wager
David Grann reconstructs HMS Wager’s secret British mission to seize a Spanish treasure galleon and the catastrophe that follows: disease, storms, shipwreck, starvation, mutiny, captivity, and competing accounts. The central question is how survival and imperial authority shape who is remembered as a hero, a mutineer, or a civilized officer.
9 chapters