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Barack Obama has shared his favorite books of 2023 including bestseller such as David Grann's "The Wager" and Jonathan Eig's "King."

Barack Obama has shared his favorite books of 2023 including bestseller such as David Grann's "The Wager" and Jonathan Eig's "King."

From the first sentence, Each man in the squadron carried, along with a sea chest, his own burdensome story, to the last, Nothing else remains of the ferocious

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Author David Grann is by far one of my favorite nonfiction authors. I enjoyed his book “Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI,”

Perhaps a parable for our turbulent times, the future of shipwrecked sailors will be determined by who wins as the layers of disinformation are peeled back.

Katrina Gulliver on “The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny, and Murder” by David Grann.

It all began in 1731 when Robert Jenkins, the captain of the Rebecca, had his ear sliced off by Juan de León Fandiño of the Spanish patrol boat La Isabela. Storming the British brig in the Caribbean, Fandiño accused Jenkins of smuggling sugar from Spanish colonies. He would cut King George’s ear off too, Fandiño

In 1740, the 28-gun ship HMS Wager was wrecked off the coast of an uninhabited island in South America. Its crew turned to in-fighting and cannibalism as they tried to survive.

David Granns "The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder" -- the story of the shipwreck and its aftermath -- features scenery-chewing characters, unexpected twists and an almost unimaginable amount of human misery. Grann will discuss his book May 4 at an author event at Yellow Box Theatre in Naperville.