Books by Hampton Sides
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review 1: This was a fantastic edge-of-your-seat read from beginning to end. It's hard to believe that anyone could have believed that a warm, salt-free ocean covered the top of the world and that nations raced to be the first to discover it. The USS Jeanette's voyage and ultimate shipwrec...
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review 1: Sides has written a true-crime thriller about James Earl Ray’s stalking and killing of Martin Luther King Jr., and the subsequent hunt for Ray before his capture. Sides paints a believable portrait of the assassin and his motivations. He also depicts a multidimensional King, as...
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review 1: The FBI's finest hour, with credit also going to RM Canadian police and Scotland Yard. Finding and capturing MLK's killer seemed impossible. I appreciated the blunt assessment of characters like J Edgar Hoover, George Wallace, and civil rights leaders. The author cuts them ...