When the late Philip Graham famously described journalism as "the first draft of history," The Washington Post publisher meant the messy and often inexact business of reporting news as it breaks. Now veteran Fort Worth Star-Telegram features writer Tim Madigan has marshalled his considerable newspapering skills to produce a different sort of historical first draft. In "The Burning: Massacre and Destruction in the 1921 Tulsa Race Riot," Madigan reaches back 80 years to create a dramatic-and harrowing-picture of June 1, 1921, the day Tulsa was convulsed by America's bloodiest race riot 1. In all, perhaps 300 residents of the Oklahoma oil boomtown, mostly blacks, were brutally killed as Greenwood, their north side neighbourhood, was pillaged and gutted. Madigan, who finished his book well before the recent terrorist attacks on New York City and Washington, D.C., describes the Tulsa riot as "the deadliest domestic outbreak in America since the Civil War," exceeding even Timothy McVeigh's 1995 fertilizer bomb assault on the federal building in Oklahoma City, which took 168 lives. Tulsa's....

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