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Investigating Power and Harm
Follow investigations into institutions, fortunes, violence, and abuses whose consequences reached far beyond the people in charge.
Books in this collection
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.
The Radium Girls
The Radium Girls follows young women who painted luminous watch dials and asks how a celebrated scientific wonder became a workplace catastrophe—and why warnings failed to protect them. It connects bodily harm to corporate secrecy, medical uncertainty, legal struggle, and the safety rules and public memory that followed.
The Power Broker
How did Robert Moses, an unelected reformer, gain the authority to remake New York—and what did that authority cost? This concise account follows the machinery behind his parks, roads, public authorities, and urban renewal, weighing durable public works against displacement, exclusion, traffic, and weakened democratic oversight.
