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Among the Bros
Among the Bros: A Fraternity Crime Story | Max Marshall
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Among the Bros is a harrowing and disturbing book. I have read about fraternity life but nothing like this. This book will blow your mind, each page digging deeper into the unimaginable. Except every word is true.Buzz Bissinger, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Mosquito Bowl and Friday Night Lights A brilliant young investigative journalist traces a murder and a multi-million-dollar drug ring, leading to an unprecedented look at elite American fraternity life. When Max Marshall arrived on the campus of the College of Charleston in 2018, he hoped to investigate a small-time fraternity Xanax trafficking ring. Instead, he found a homicide, several student deaths, and millions of dollars circulating around the Deep South. He also opened up an elite world hidden to outsiders. Behind the pop culture cliches of Greek life lies one of the major breeding grounds of American power: 80 percent of Fortune 500 executives, 85 percent of Supreme Court justices, and all but four presidents since 1825 have been fraternity members. With unprecedented immersion, this book takes readers inside that bubble. Under the live oaks and Spanish moss of Travel + Leisures Most Beautiful Campus in America, Marshall traces several C of C boys journeys from fraternity pledges to interstate drug traffickers. The result is a true-life story of hubris, status, money, drugs, and murderone that lifts a curtain on an ecstatic and disturbing way of life. With expert pacing and a cool eye, he follows a never-ending party that continues after funerals and mass arrests. An addictive and haunting portrait of tomorrows American establishment, Among the Bros is nonfiction storytelling at its finest.
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Sace
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Mehso-so

2/4⭐️
I tend to enjoy the beginning of true crime books because it deals with the life and history of the players and sets up the context of the crime. I invariably lose interest when the investigation narrative starts. The same was true for this book as well.

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Sace
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My next #audiobook

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Megara
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Pickpick

Read this book.

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Megara
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1st, so far, this book is great.
2nd, TW for racist violence.

Read the highlighted quote about Waka Flocka Flame cancelling his show in 2014 for University of Oklahoma's Sigma Alpha Epsilon. WFF saw a video of two OU SAEs singing the quoted lynching song and, with good reason, was disgusted by it. MSNBC anchor Mika Brzezinski's quotation continues on the next page, "...he should be disgusted with himself." She's still on MSNBC. Fuck her.

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catiewithac
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Bailedbailed

I made about 80 pages into this true crime tale before my interest fizzled. The author is too much of a fraternity bro himself. Sorry, next! 🍻

dabbe #hailthebail! 🤩🤩🤩 8mo
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plemmdog
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Mehso-so

Maybe I was still in withdrawal from the Murdaugh murder trial of 2023 when I bought this, but it looked enticing. Alas, it mostly disappoints. The jacket copy misleadingly promises an insider's look at "bro culture" and the "gilded bubble" of contemporary Greek life, and how the "old boy" system is still alive and functioning in the South. But the narrative meanders and the crime story mostly felt humdrum. Juicy but ultimately insubstantial.