Bill Price Biography Published

At War with Corruption is the biography of Bill Price, former U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Oklahoma. Written by Michael J. Hightower, with a foreword by Oklahoma governor and NAFUSA member (ND Oklahoma 1981-1983) Frank Keating, the book details Price’s career in law and politics, which serves as a portal into corruption in Oklahoma. Episodes in that narrative include land swindles (soonerism) at the dawn of Oklahoma history; theft of Native Americans’ property and steamrolling of their cultures that reached a nadir in the Osage murders; the Supreme Court scandal of 1964–65; Leo Winters’ alleged misuse of state taxes (what was the treasurer doing with the people’s money?); Governor David Hall’s trial and conviction on charges of extortion; prosecutions of drug syndicates, Penn Square Bank insiders, and Oklahoma Corporation Commissioners on the take; and the systemic bribery in county governance that inspired this book. The book can be purchased on Amazon here.