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Title: No Bone Unturned : The Adventures of a Top Smithsonian Forensic Scientist and the Legal Battle for America's Oldest Skeletons by Jeff Benedict ISBN: 0-06-019923-7 Publisher: HarperCollins Pub. Date: 25 March, 2003 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.45 (11 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: From cradle to grave, Benedict weaves an incredible story
Comment: It was easy to get involved in the story with the author able to pull the reader in to the point of holding the book at arms length as body bags were unzipped. I yelled at the book in outrage as government attorneys tried to steal Kennewick man from the American people. From the dedication to the last entry in the index, Adams to Zulu, Author Benedict emerges as a hero of the people with his telling of a great story.
Rating: 5
Summary: Exciting view into the inner world of forensic anthropology
Comment: Jeff Benedict depiction of the distinguished career of Doug Owsley of the Smithsonian, almost reads like a novel. This page-turner of a book increases in intensity from descriptions of Dr. Owsley's work in Guatemala and his involvement in identifying victims of Waco, to the legal battle started by Dr. Owsley, needed to force the federal government to allow study of a 9,000 years skeleton that could shed light on the history of the Americas.
Move over CSI, "No Bone Unturned" is more real, more enthralling, and more honest.
Rating: 4
Summary: In this story, Owsley makes his bones
Comment: This book is about Dr. Douglas Owsley, a curator for the Smithsonian Museum of Natural History and America's foremost authority on skeletal remains. He has handled more than 10,000 human skeletons, and is by by far the most knowledgeable scientist in his field in America. This book deals first with his life and its origins, and secondly with his legal battles against the Clinton-Gore White House over custody of the remains of a 9200 year old skeleton found along the Columbia river in Washington state and now known as "kennewick Man."
It was reported just the other day, February 4th - 2004, that an appeals court decided that scientists could now study the bones of "Kennewick Man." A three-judge panel agreed with a lower court that these human remains were not impacted by the federal grave-protection laws because there is no evidence connecting them to any existing indian tribe. The reasons for this legal battle are clearly political. The instrument of force used by the Clinton-Gore administration, the Army Corps of Engineers, initially agreed with the objections of American indian tribes in the area who protested that the bones were sacred tribal relics and thus subject to burial on tribal lands. In that capacity the Corps took them into custody. This book is focused largely on the now successful quest of a determined group of scientists to gain access to the bones that they might be studied, allowing all of us to more accurately understand our history as a nation. One might ponder why a goup of indians would have a problem with this?
Jeff Benedict, an investigative journalist, does a wonderful job of uncovering this story, one which casts the Clinton administration in the craven and corrupt fashion by which it deserves to be remembered. It also depicts Owsley and seven other of America's leading scientists as brave and dogged men of principle, the kind who have historically championed the fights of a civil society against its dictatorial elites.
One merely has to trace the origins of these laws, in this case alleging that American Indians were the first inhabitants of America givng them special claims, to the Democratic Party's creation of yet another example of their multiple victim groups to whom they, once installed, grant huge welfare money in return for large campaign contributions; a perpetual money machine of campaign corruption, a closed feedback loop thru they wish to perpetuate their existance, and which they wish to keep intact at all costs. One can only marvel at the audacity of Al Gore and his minions as they direct the Corp of Engineers, in defiance of congress, to drop tons of rocks on the burial site of Kennewick Man that they might inhibit futher study.
This is indeed a terrific and well told story and men like Owsley and his crew deserve far more mention than they will ever get.
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Title: Written in Bones: How Human Remains Unlock the Secrets of the Dead by Paul G. Bahn ISBN: 1552976599 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: March, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Silent Witness: How Forensic Anthropology Is Used to Solve the World's Toughest Crimes by Roxana Ferllini Timms, Cyril Wecht, Roxana Ferllini ISBN: 1552976246 Publisher: Firefly Books Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach ISBN: 0393050939 Publisher: W.W. Norton & Company Pub. Date: April, 2003 List Price(USD): $23.95 |
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Title: Death's Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab/the Body Farm/Where the Dead Do Tell Tales by William M. Bass, Jon Jefferson, Bill Bass, Patricia Cornwell ISBN: 0399151346 Publisher: Putnam Pub Group Pub. Date: 23 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Ancient Encounters : Kennewick Man and the First Americans by James C. Chatters ISBN: 068485936X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 07 June, 2001 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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