Joy of the Birds is a milestone in the literature of Billy the Kid. It is arguably the definitive revisionist telling of his story. Based on research utilizing 40,000 pages of archival documents and books, and input of over 300 consultants, Joy of the Birds creates a virtual world. As docufiction, it ends 130 years of cover-up by the Santa Fe Ring: a corrupt cabal of robber baron politicians, law enforcement, and hit-man thugs which caused the freedom fight known as the Lincoln County War. Central to that uprising was Billy Bonney, outlawed by these enemies as Billy the Kid. That war's last survivor, he had to die. The truth could have brought down President Hayes's administration. Joy of the Birds is also a tale of star-crossed romance between charismatic Billy and young Paulita Maxwell, the richest heiress in New Mexico.
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The author is a Harvard educated, M.D. psychiatrist specializing in murder case consultation, who moved from a Beverly Hills, California, medical practice to a New Mexico mountain to write Joy of the Birds. The author has also written and illustrated adult non-fiction and children's books.
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This is like a cross between "Finnegan's Wake" and the best possible western....except there is something magical in the voice of the book, which grows more adult and more subtle and textural as the main character grows from birth to very young manhood. The footnotes and references alone are enough to blow your hat off. I truly believe it is destined to be a classic. It is not "indecipherable" as some say about "Finnegan's Wake", but it is a JOURNEY of that magnitude.You may never trust a history book again after you read this.
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