Kingdom of Devils
A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution
カートのアイテムが多すぎます
ご購入は五十タイトルがカートに入っている場合のみです。
カートに追加できませんでした。
しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。
ウィッシュリストに追加できませんでした。
しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。
ほしい物リストの削除に失敗しました。
しばらく経ってから再度お試しください。
ポッドキャストのフォローに失敗しました
ポッドキャストのフォロー解除に失敗しました
聴き放題対象外タイトルです。プレミアム会員登録で、非会員価格の30%OFFで予約注文できます。聴けるのは配信日からとなります。
オーディオブック・ポッドキャスト・オリジナル作品など数十万以上の対象作品が聴き放題。
オーディオブックをお得な会員価格で購入できます。
30日間の無料体験後は月額¥1500で自動更新します。いつでも退会できます。
¥2,200で今すぐ予約注文する
-
ナレーター:
概要
Kentucky, 1798: A harrowing series of murders begins. The first body, discovered by cattle drovers, lies bloody at the bottom of a ridge. Then another—a dead boy staring up from a sinkhole. Bodies turn up along roadsides, stuffed into brush. They float to the surface of muddy brooks. For nine terrifying months, over hundreds of miles of Kentucky and Tennessee countryside, the terror unfolds. The killers—two men with a hazy background—are brothers, named Wiley and Micajah Harp.
The Harps killed dozens, but why they did it has eluded folklorists and historians for generations. Almost every story imagines their motive was pure bloodlust: but for historian Katherine Grandjean, that’s too simple. Instead, she uses the Harp murders to reveal the dark side of the early United States’s independence. These were uncertain and dangerous years—a time when the fledgling federal government could do little to protect its citizens. And if the Revolution was liberating, it was also deeply destabilizing, politically and socially. Even as it built up some men, it stacked the deck against others, propelling them into the punishments of volatile markets and lost safety nets and shattered aspirations. Unspooling the mystery of what sent the Harps reeling exposes the hidden, violent legacies of the American Revolution.
Bristling with tense, page-turning storytelling—and driven by a historian’s obsessive detective work—Kingdom of Devils recovers these long-forgotten murders as a haunting tale about the darkness at the heart of the American dream.
批評家のレビュー
“Part true crime, part western, part ghost story, Kingdom of Devils plumbs the dark underbelly of the American West in the years following the Revolution, when, as Katherine Grandjean writes, ‘not even the ground beneath your feet was fixed.’ Pairing deep and inventive research with crackling prose, Grandjean has written In Cold Blood for the 1790s: a rare history that makes its times memorably vivid, and the hairs on the back of your neck stand up.”—Jane Kamensky, president and CEO, Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello
まだレビューはありません