• The Great Oklahoma Swindle

  • Race, Religion, and Lies in America's Weirdest State
  • De: Russell Cobb
  • Narrado por: Lloyd James
  • Duración: 9 h y 40 m
  • 3.9 out of 5 stars (14 calificaciones)

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De: Russell Cobb
Narrado por: Lloyd James
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Look down as you buzz across America, and Oklahoma looks like another “flyover state.” A closer inspection, however, reveals one of the most tragic, fascinating, and unpredictable places in the United States

Over the span of a century, Oklahoma gave birth to movements for an African American homeland, a vibrant Socialist Party, armed rebellions of radical farmers, and an insurrection by a man called Crazy Snake. In the same era, the state saw numerous oil booms, one of which transformed the small town of Tulsa into the “oil capital of the world.”

Add to the chaos one of the nation’s worst episodes of racial violence, a statewide takeover by the Ku Klux Klan, and the rise of a paranoid far-right agenda by a fundamentalist preacher named Billy James Hargis and you have the recipe for America’s most paradoxical state.

Far from being a placid place in the heart of “flyover country,” Oklahoma has been a laboratory for all kinds of social, political, and artistic movements, producing a singular list of weirdos, geniuses, and villains.

In this book, Russell Cobb tells the story of a state rich in natural resources and artistic talent, yet near the bottom in education and social welfare. Raised in Tulsa, Cobb engages Oklahomans across the boundaries of race and class to hear their troubles, anxieties, and aspirations and delves deep to understand their contradictory and often stridently independent attitudes.

Interweaving memoir, social commentary, and sometimes surprising research around the themes of race, religion, and politics, Cobb presents an insightful portrait that will make you rethink everything you thought you knew about the American Heartland.

©2020 the Board of Regents of the University of Nebraska (P)2023 Blackstone Publishing
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As a Tulsa native it’s great to finally know that truth about so many things that are hidden in plain sight.

Great book that is incredibly informative. I thought I knew so much any Tulsa’s history, but I learned so much more. I had to move East for a job but my heart is still in Tulsa! The story is read my someone who has done inadequate research into pronouncing certain things correctly and it shows.

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Required reading for any Oklahoman

Outstanding historical research and story telling. The research unveils a hard pill to swallow for those who blindly love the Sooner State, but one that must be accepted as it is both factual and shameful. It is one that any true Oklahoma. Should read, and in turn, use to make the former Indian Territory into a bette place from where it originated.

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Great Book!

This is a great book! I am from Tulsa and I learned so much from this book. Great story and a lot of facts that most people probably don't even know.

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I love this book but…

I love this book but…. As an Oklahoma native I know there are many other towns with intriguing stories to tell.

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