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Available
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Pages
x; 377
Description
Presents a true account of the early twentieth-century murders of dozens of wealthy Osage and law-enforcement officials, citing the contributions and missteps of a fledgling FBI that eventually uncovered one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.
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Original publication date
2017-04-18
Physical description
x, 377 p.; 21 cm
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Media reviews
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
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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 Show Less
Awards
National Book Award (Finalist — Nonfiction — 2017)
Edgar Award (Nominee — Fact Crime — 2018)
Anthony Award (Nominee — 2018)
Crime Writers' Association Awards (Shortlist — 2018)
Indies Choice Book Award (Winner — Adult Nonfiction — 2018)
Andrew Carnegie Medals for Excellence in Fiction and Nonfiction (Finalist — Nonfiction — 2018)
NCSLMA Battle of the Books (High School — 2025)
Volunteer State Book Award (Nominee — High School — 2023)
Brooklyn Public Library Book Prize (Longlist — Nonfiction — 2017)
Spur Award (Winner — 2018)
Reading the West Book Award (Winner — Nonfiction — 2017)
YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction (Nominee — 2023)
Publishers Weekly's Best Books of the Year (Nonfiction — 2017)
Booklist Editor's Choice: Adult Books (History — 2017)
NPR: Books We Love (2017)
Boston Globe Best Book (Nonfiction — 2017)
The New York Times Notable Books of the Year (Nonfiction — 2017)
San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year (Nonfiction — 2017)
Library Journal Top Ten Book (2017)
Notable Books List (Nonfiction — 2018)
Time Magazine's Best Books of the Year (Nonfiction — 2017)
Globe and Mail Top 100 Book (2017)
LibraryReads (Annual Voter Favorite — April 2017)
Chicago Public Library Best of the Best: Adults (Selection — 2017)