Many of the authors have or will be appearing on book tv, you can watch them on the website, booktv. Org. Wow. Good evening everyone. And katie director of leisure services. Welcome to the kansas city public library. Thank you for the patients, flexibility and thank you rainy day books for setting land speed records for getting david here. These were circumstances out of everyones control. His plane was delayed you may insert your own airline show care. Tonight, he will talk about his book, killers of the flower mound. Strive unspeakable historical crime of greed, fear, anger and racial cleansing. It is part crime thriller part political history and a book that will generate conversation long after david catches his next plane. It is easy to read this book because david tells a story in a riveting, detail rich suspenseful way. It is hard to read this book because its true and devastating and maddening. But david is a magnificent storyteller. He has written for the New York Times magazi
So please welcome joining us david grand to this program. He is with the new yorker magazine. He spent years researching the latest book called killers of the flower moon the osage murders and the birth of the fbi. The film add aptation is already in the working with de niro, dicaprio, rumored tore considered. Honored to have you on the program. Do you care to confirm or deny those rumors . I will not deny nor confirm. You dont have to confirm or deny. We are read the trays. For those not following the story about this book, before this thing even came out, the bennie im going to embarrass you. The bidding war we were told went over 5 million just for the rights to do the film. And those names a missed a moment ago and give you an indication of how big this thing is expected to be here in hollywood where david grand sits with me today. That must feel good. Must feel good when you put that much time writing something, you clearly put your heart into and people get it. You dont know. Thi
So please welcome joining us david grand to this program. He is with the new yorker magazine. He spent years researching the latest book called killers of the flower moon the osage murders and the birth of the fbi. The film add aptation is already in the working with de niro, dicaprio, rumored tore considered. Honored to have you on the program. Do you care to confirm or deny those rumors . I will not deny nor confirm. You dont have to confirm or deny. We are read the trays. For those not following the story about this book, before this thing even came out, the bennie im going to embarrass you. The bidding war we were told went over 5 million just for the rights to do the film. And those names a missed a moment ago and give you an indication of how big this thing is expected to be here in hollywood where david grand sits with me today. That must feel good. Must feel good when you put that much time writing something, you clearly put your heart into and people get it. You dont know. Thi
We appreciate it. Even though sometimes you dont say thank you. Thank you. I will carry on until i drop dead. Hi my name receive linn and im so glad to welcome you to the store this evening and were excited to welcome david barron, hes the author of american eclipse which is why youre is thing here. And were very, very excited because this is a really interesting book where the wild west meets the stars essentially, and if i was reading a little bit about it and about the time and the e and i thought how interesting 100 years ago 99 years ago was the last time we had a total eclipse that went from coast to coast. And it it was right over colorado. But you think about colorado 100 years ago it was a different place. It was known for it was a wild west. You know. Who would come to colorado well they wanted to come because you could stand on mountain and see eclipse better than anywhere else. So all of a sudden california took on a new place in science and a place that was the beginning o
Of american eclipse which is why you are sitting here. This is a really interesting book where the wild west meets the stars essentially and i was reading about it and about the time and eclipse and i thought how interesting 100 years ago, 99 years ago was the last time we had a total eclipse. It went from coasttocoast and it was right over colorado but if you think about colorado 100 years ago. It was a different place. It was the wild west you know and it was miners and cowboys and all that and you think who would come to colorado . They wanted to come because you could stand in the mountains and see the eclipse better than anywhere else. All of a sudden colorado took on a new place in science and it was really the beginning of tourism in colorado and there was a lot of incredible tourism. It all started with lots of light and eclipses when we first began to record demos like into the world. I was reading at 11 33 king henry the first died in right after the total eclipse they though