A Leg In Oklahoma City

Author : Greg Hoetker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734107913
Total Pages : 282 pages
Book Rating : 4.1X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Leg in Oklahoma City written by Greg Hoetker and published by . This book was released on 2019-11-15 with total page 282 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No one can say this story is not true." So begins this debut novel, a work that took more than 20 years to conceive, research, and write. A story of passion, pain, and memory, this work also attempts to solve a loose-threaded mystery trailing like a fuse behind one of the greatest domestic acts of terrorism in American history-the epicenter of which was, and still is, the heartland of Oklahoma City. Compact, multifaceted, historically adept-and now heightened by the minimalist sketches of artist Brooke Foster-A Leg in Oklahoma City will keep you wondering, loving, and hoping-from its first to final sentence.

Author : Greg Hoetker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780578556659
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Leg in Oklahoma City written by Greg Hoetker and published by . This book was released on 2019-09-09 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "No one can say this story is not true." So begins this novel, a work that took more than 20 years to conceive, research, and write. A story of love, pain, and memory, this novel also attempts to solve a loose-threaded mystery trailing like a fuse behind one of the greatest domestic acts of terrorism in American history--the epicenter of which was, and still is, the heartland of Oklahoma City.

Author : Andrew Gumbel
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062100920
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Oklahoma City written by Andrew Gumbel and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2012-04-24 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the early morning of April 19, 1995, Timothy McVeigh drove into downtown Oklahoma City in a rented Ryder truck containing a deadly fertilizer bomb that he and his army buddy Terry Nichols had made the previous day. He parked in a handicapped-parking zone, hopped out of the truck, and walked away into a series of alleys and streets. Shortly after 9:00 A.M., the bomb obliterated one-third of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, killing 168 people, including 19 infants and toddlers. McVeigh claimed he'd worked only with Nichols, and at least officially, the government believed him. But McVeigh's was just one version of events. And much of it was wrong. In Oklahoma City, veteran investigative journalists Andrew Gumbel and Roger G. Charles puncture the myth about what happened on that day—one that has persisted in the minds of the American public for nearly two decades. Working with unprecedented access to government documents, a voluminous correspondence with Terry Nichols, and more than 150 interviews with those immediately involved, Gumbel and Charles demonstrate how much was missed beyond the guilt of the two principal defendants: in particular, the dysfunction within the country's law enforcement agencies, which squandered opportunities to penetrate the radical right and prevent the bombing, and the unanswered question of who inspired the plot and who else might have been involved. To this day, the FBI heralds the Oklahoma City investigation as one of its great triumphs. In reality, though, its handling of the bombing foreshadowed many of the problems that made the country vulnerable to attack again on 9/11. Law enforcement agencies could not see past their own rivalries and underestimated the seriousness of the deadly rhetoric coming from the radical far right. In Oklahoma City, Gumbel and Charles give the fullest, most honest account to date of both the plot and the investigation, drawing a vivid portrait of the unfailingly compelling—driven, eccentric, fractious, funny, and wildly paranoid—characters involved.

Author : David Hoffman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 538 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Oklahoma City Bombing and the Politics of Terror written by David Hoffman and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: THE OKLAHOMA CITY BOMBING AND THE POLITICS OF TERROR An in-depth analysis of the bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in April 1995 in which 169 people died. Reveals government malfeasance, possible cover-ups and much of the content was used in a Grand Jury investigation into the bombing. The most important publication on the worst terrorist act in american history.

Author : United States. Congress House
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Telephone Directory written by United States. Congress House and published by . This book was released on with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Stephen Jones
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Others Unknown written by Stephen Jones and published by . This book was released on 1998-11-05 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jones, chief defense counsel during the trial against Timothy McVeigh, convicted of the Oklahoma City bombing, reveals evidence that the bombing could not have been the work of only two men, that the US government had prior knowledge about the attack, that foreign connections were involved, and that the US government worked to prevent the whole story from emerging. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Jeff Provine
Publisher : Reedy Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1681063360
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Secret Oklahoma City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure written by Jeff Provine and published by Reedy Press LLC. This book was released on 2021-09-15 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oklahoma City was called “A City Born Grown” after it went from a population of a handful at Oklahoma Depot to over 10,000 on its first day. Nobody seems to mention how the streets were laid crooked and took 80 years to fix by tearing up half of downtown and that two rival city governments aimed guns at one another until the Supreme Court sorted out who was in charge. And that was only its first six months! Secret Oklahoma City: A Guide to the Weird, Wonderful, and Obscure shares the places and stories that you won’t hear in History class, though you probably should! Learn about the Chinese Tunnels that housed hundreds of immigrant workers underground. Visit the Overholser Mansion and see if the lady of the house is still in, sixty years after her death! Gain new respect for animal heroes at the American Pigeon Museum. Find out what a giant milk bottle is doing on top of an old grocery store off 23rd. Speaking of groceries, did you know the grocery cart was invented on the south side of town? Or that the parking meter got its start in downtown Oklahoma City? Oklahoma farm kid-turned-professor Jeff Provine has spent more than a decade learning the lesserknown tales of OKC. Come with him on a tour of the unexpected side of Oklahoma City.

Author : Greg Hoetker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781734107944
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book BLACK CYANIDE / White Pill written by Greg Hoetker and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-06 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A hundred pages. A hundred chapters. A hundred years. Concise but ambitious, BLACK CYANIDE / white pill is raw America swallowed whole--to flower or shatter--or both.The inimitable coming-of-age tale of Amos Sideways, a man who lives "in-between," BLACK CYANIDE / white pill grapples with race, love, & religion, for a complete century, from the Deep South to True North to Idaho's Wild West. Passion & anger. Murder & manslaughter. God & guilt. Redemption & release. Come, child. It is His will. It is Your destiny. Come, child. Write your story. Take your first & final dose: BLACK CYANIDE / white pill.

Author : William F. Kerr
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.90/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma written by William F. Kerr and published by . This book was released on 1922 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sam Anderson
Publisher : Crown
ISBN 13 : 0804137323
Total Pages : 513 pages
Book Rating : 4.24/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Boom Town written by Sam Anderson and published by Crown. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 513 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant, kaleidoscopic narrative of Oklahoma City—a great American story of civics, basketball, and destiny, from award-winning journalist Sam Anderson NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY The New York Times Book Review • NPR • Chicago Tribune • San Francisco Chronicle • The Economist • Deadspin Oklahoma City was born from chaos. It was founded in a bizarre but momentous “Land Run” in 1889, when thousands of people lined up along the borders of Oklahoma Territory and rushed in at noon to stake their claims. Since then, it has been a city torn between the wild energy that drives its outsized ambitions, and the forces of order that seek sustainable progress. Nowhere was this dynamic better realized than in the drama of the Oklahoma City Thunder basketball team’s 2012-13 season, when the Thunder’s brilliant general manager, Sam Presti, ignited a firestorm by trading future superstar James Harden just days before the first game. Presti’s all-in gamble on “the Process”—the patient, methodical management style that dictated the trade as the team’s best hope for long-term greatness—kicked off a pivotal year in the city’s history, one that would include pitched battles over urban planning, a series of cataclysmic tornadoes, and the frenzied hope that an NBA championship might finally deliver the glory of which the city had always dreamed. Boom Town announces the arrival of an exciting literary voice. Sam Anderson, former book critic for New York magazine and now a staff writer at the New York Times magazine, unfolds an idiosyncratic mix of American history, sports reporting, urban studies, gonzo memoir, and much more to tell the strange but compelling story of an American city whose unique mix of geography and history make it a fascinating microcosm of the democratic experiment. Filled with characters ranging from NBA superstars Kevin Durant and Russell Westbrook; to Flaming Lips oddball frontman Wayne Coyne; to legendary Great Plains meteorologist Gary England; to Stanley Draper, Oklahoma City's would-be Robert Moses; to civil rights activist Clara Luper; to the citizens and public servants who survived the notorious 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah federal building, Boom Town offers a remarkable look at the urban tapestry woven from control and chaos, sports and civics.