PHPL Library's History Book Club: Killers of the Flower Moon
Time magazine listed "Killers of the Flower Moon" as one of its top 10 nonfiction books of 2017. This book investigates the murders in 1920, of many of the Oklahoma Osage Nation, the richest people per capita in the world, and how the newly created FBI led by J. Edgar Hoover unraveled the conspiracy.
Over twenty-four Osage Indians were murdered before the investigation by the FBI began. This book exposes the deep-seated prejudices and turbulent history that continue to cast a shadow over our country. Join Professor Megan Tusler, a member of the Osage Nation of Oklahoma, in our discussion of this book on Wednesday, December 19, at 7 p.m.
Professor Tusler received her Ph.D. in English from the University of Chicago in 2015. Her research, on 19th and 20th century American ethnic literature, focuses on fiction, nonfiction, photography, cultural movements and urbanism. Her two current essay projects are a literary genealogy of the kitchenette apartment in American urban space and an essay on sentimentality and American Indians in literature and cinema in the 1950s and 60s. Her work appears in American Indian Quarterly, Criticism, Chicago Review, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
Books are still available at the Circulation Desk of the Prospect Heights Public Library, 12 N. Elm St., Prospect Heights.