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History and Current Events August 2022 |
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| The Colony: Faith and Blood in a Promised Land by Sally DentonWhat it's about: In 2019 Northern Mexico, nine Mormon women and children were killed by a local drug cartel, targeted for their ties to a fundamentalist sect in the region.
Read it for: a compelling and well-researched chronicle of the tensions between breakaway Mormon communities in Mexico and their neighbors.
For fans of: Jon Krakauer's Under the Banner of Heaven and its recent miniseries adaptation. |
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| Rogues: True Stories of Grifters, Killers, Rebels, and Crooks by Patrick Radden KeefeWhat's inside: A thought-provoking collection of 12 previously published New Yorker articles by journalist Patrick Radden Keefe that focus on crimes and the schemers who commit them.
Why you might like it: Keefe's incisive profiles of notorious figures like Mexican drug lord El Chapo and Dutch gangster Wim Holleeder reveal their stories without glamorizing their misdeeds.
Don't miss: Updates at the end of each essay. |
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