Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History

Blood and Thunder: The Epic Story of Kit Carson and the Conquest of…

Author: Hampton Sides

NATIONAL BESTSELLEREdgar Award NomineeOne of the Best Books of the Year: O, The Oprah Magazine, Time, The Washington Post, The Christian Science Monitor, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, San Francisco ChronicleWith a New AfterwordOn April 4, 1968, James Earl Ray shot Martin Luther King at the Lorraine Motel. The nation was shocked, enraged, and saddened. As chaos erupted across th….Read More

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