Kingdom of Devils
A Tale of Murder in the Shadow of the American Revolution
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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.
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“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
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