A document of central concern to all those concerned with the future of American democracy.
A comprehensive oral history of what Donald Trump called “a day of love.”
Jalonick, congressional reporter for the Associated Press, has made it a practice ever since the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol to ask interviewees about their experiences, “no matter the topic.” From the stories she gathers here, one theme is that plenty of people on the Hill had a sense of foreboding on and before that day, including Senate chaplain Barry Black, who foresaw “that this was probably going to be a day like no other we had ever experienced.” The Republican chair of the Senate Rules Committee recalls that the Capitol Police were anticipating something, given two previous outbreaks of violence in D.C. on the part of Trump supporters. An Iowa construction worker who participated in the breach of the Capitol agrees: All Trump had to do was say “My fellow Americans” at the start of a speech, and his praetorian guard was soon on hand. And so, says an Oath Keeper from Florida, “I was prepared to stop the certification process one way or the other.” Indeed, a Capitol Police captain observes, the audience for Trump’s speech that day was full of people dressed in tactical gear who “appeared to be prepared for much more than listening to politicians speak in a park.” Jalonick’s dramatis personae is vast, and it falls in two broad camps: the participants, largely unrepentant, along with enablers such as then-Representative Matt Gaetz, who tried to blame the attack on antifa, “the beginning,” Jalonick writes, “of a much broader effort to downplay the insurrection that I couldn’t possibly have imagined in that moment”; and then all the rest, horrified and disgusted at the attempt to overturn the Constitution—an attempt, this book makes clear, that was coordinated from the top down.
A document of central concern to all those concerned with the future of American democracy.Pub Date: Jan. 6, 2026
ISBN: 9781541705982
Page Count: 336
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Review Posted Online: Dec. 11, 2025
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2026
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.
Greed, depravity, and serial murder in 1920s Oklahoma.
During that time, enrolled members of the Osage Indian nation were among the wealthiest people per capita in the world. The rich oil fields beneath their reservation brought millions of dollars into the tribe annually, distributed to tribal members holding "headrights" that could not be bought or sold but only inherited. This vast wealth attracted the attention of unscrupulous whites who found ways to divert it to themselves by marrying Osage women or by having Osage declared legally incompetent so the whites could fleece them through the administration of their estates. For some, however, these deceptive tactics were not enough, and a plague of violent death—by shooting, poison, orchestrated automobile accident, and bombing—began to decimate the Osage in what they came to call the "Reign of Terror." Corrupt and incompetent law enforcement and judicial systems ensured that the perpetrators were never found or punished until the young J. Edgar Hoover saw cracking these cases as a means of burnishing the reputation of the newly professionalized FBI. Bestselling New Yorkerstaff writer Grann (The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness, and Obsession, 2010, etc.) follows Special Agent Tom White and his assistants as they track the killers of one extended Osage family through a closed local culture of greed, bigotry, and lies in pursuit of protection for the survivors and justice for the dead. But he doesn't stop there; relying almost entirely on primary and unpublished sources, the author goes on to expose a web of conspiracy and corruption that extended far wider than even the FBI ever suspected. This page-turner surges forward with the pacing of a true-crime thriller, elevated by Grann's crisp and evocative prose and enhanced by dozens of period photographs.
Dogged original research and superb narrative skills come together in this gripping account of pitiless evil.Pub Date: April 18, 2017
ISBN: 978-0-385-53424-6
Page Count: 352
Publisher: Doubleday
Review Posted Online: Feb. 1, 2017
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Feb. 15, 2017
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
BOOK TO SCREEN
The author's youthfulness helps to assure the inevitable comparison with the Anne Frank diary although over and above the...
Elie Wiesel spent his early years in a small Transylvanian town as one of four children.
He was the only one of the family to survive what Francois Maurois, in his introduction, calls the "human holocaust" of the persecution of the Jews, which began with the restrictions, the singularization of the yellow star, the enclosure within the ghetto, and went on to the mass deportations to the ovens of Auschwitz and Buchenwald. There are unforgettable and horrifying scenes here in this spare and sombre memoir of this experience of the hanging of a child, of his first farewell with his father who leaves him an inheritance of a knife and a spoon, and of his last goodbye at Buchenwald his father's corpse is already cold let alone the long months of survival under unconscionable conditions.
Pub Date: Jan. 16, 2006
ISBN: 0374500010
Page Count: 120
Publisher: Hill & Wang
Review Posted Online: Oct. 7, 2011
Kirkus Reviews Issue: Jan. 15, 2006
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