His book doesn't prove her murder beyond doubt, but McAuliffe presents strong speculation. His research is painstaking. Taking a leave from his editor's desk at the Washington Post, he spent a summer in Oklahoma. He walked through the story clue by clue, poring over documents, Oklahoma and national newspapers, FBI files, and conducting interviews. It's important that people know it happened 70 years ago.
People are still alive who remember it.
I 1 like to read. That mixes mystery and suspense, biography and autobiography, history, commentary and a shocking expose of a little known American event. He began his personal research in late 1991, he said, at age 41. The book contract was a technicality. It was the only way I could get to Osage County to do research and still pay the rent.