Kings of Broken Things: Bystanders, Historical Wounds, and the Omaha Race Riot of 1919

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Author and journalist Theodore Wheeler discusses the societal and personal factors that helped form his novel — Kings of Broken Things — an immigrant coming-of-age story set amid the political, economic and racial tensions surrounding the 1919 lynching of Will Brown.