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Housatonic Book Award Winner

Longlisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction

Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and Stowe Prize

One of The New York Times' “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” One of Oprah Daily's “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May” One of The Oklahoman's “15 Books to Help You Learn About the Tulsa Race Massacre as the 100-Year Anniversary Approaches” A The Week book of the week

As seen in documentaries on the History Channel, CNN, and Lebron James’s SpringHill Productions

And then they were gone.

More than one thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors’ offices, a hospital, a public library, a post office. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air. 
 
Over the course of

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      Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 17/05/2022
      ISBN13: 9780593182994, 978-0593182994
      ISBN10: 0593182995
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Housatonic Book Award Winner

      Longlisted for the National Book Award and Carnegie Medal in Nonfiction

      Shortlisted for the J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize and Stowe Prize

      One of The New York Times' “11 New Books We Recommend This Week” One of Oprah Daily's “20 of the Best Books to Pick Up This May” One of The Oklahoman's “15 Books to Help You Learn About the Tulsa Race Massacre as the 100-Year Anniversary Approaches” A The Week book of the week

      As seen in documentaries on the History Channel, CNN, and Lebron James’s SpringHill Productions

      And then they were gone.

      More than one thousand homes and businesses. Restaurants and movie theaters, churches and doctors’ offices, a hospital, a public library, a post office. Looted, burned, and bombed from the air. 
       
      Over the course of

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