re: Any suggestions for TRUE STORY books?

A couple of little known historical fiction books that are outstanding:

Paradise Alley- Kevin Baker

If you've seen Gangs of New York you'll get the gist of this book but it's so much more than the movie could ever be. Based on true events.


The Gates of the Alamo - Stephen Harrigan

A huge, riveting, deeply imagined novel about the siege and fall of the Alamo in 1836--an event that formed the consciousness of Texas and that resonates through American history-- The Gates of the Alamo follows the lives of three people whose fates become bound to the now-fabled Texas Edmund McGowan, a proud and gifted naturalist whose life's work is threatened by the war against Mexico; the resourceful, widowed innkeeper Mary Mott; and her sixteen-year-old son, Terrell, whose first shattering experience with love leads him instead to war, and into the crucible of the Alamo. The story unfolds with vivid immediacy and describes the pivotal battle from the perspective of the Mexican attackers as well as the American defenders. Filled with dramatic scenes, and abounding in fictional and historical personalities--among them James Bowie, David Crockett, William Travis, and General Santa Anna--The Gates of the Alamo enfolds us in history and, through its remarkable and passionate storytelling, allows us to participate at last in an American legend.

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Mississippi Mud

It is about Dixie Mafia and the killing of a Judge and wife in Biloxi back in the early 90's

Young Men and Fire by Norman Mclean

Among the Bros is good. About the drug ring running out of College of Charleston. I listened to the audiobook on Libby.

The Wager

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The best I've read is Rising Tide, about the 1927 Mississippi River flood. What a different world that was.

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