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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Annotated by Dee Brown (Paperback)

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee - Annotated by  Dee Brown (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>The classic bestselling history "The New York Times" has called original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking is available in a special 30th-anniversary edition. 56 illustrations.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>The landmark, bestselling account of the crimes against American Indians during the 19th century, now on its 50th Anniversary.</b> <p/>First published in 1970, <i>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee </i>is Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of American Indians during the second half of the nineteenth century. A national bestseller in hardcover for more than a year after its initial publication, it has sold almost four million copies and has been translated into seventeen languages. <p/>Using council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions, Brown introduces readers to great chiefs and warrors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes, revealing in heartwrenching detail the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that methodically stripped them of freedom. A forceful narrative still discussed today as revelatory and controversial, <i>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee </i>permanently altered our understanding of how the American West came to be defined.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><p>Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking. . . . Impossible to put down. <br><b>--<i>The New York Times</i></b> <p/>Shattering, appalling, compelling. . . . One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages. <br><b>--<i>The Washington Post</i></b> <p/>A first-rate account--strongly and ardently written. <br><b>--<i>The New Yorker</i></b></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Dee Brown </b>was the author of over twenty-five books on the American West and the Civil War. His <i>Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee</i>, considered a classic in its field, was a <i>New York Times</i> bestseller for over a year, and has been translated into many languages. Dee Brown died in 2002. <p/><b>Hampton Sides</b> is editor-at-large for <i>Outside</i> magazine, and the author of <i>Ghost Soldiers</i>, <i>Blood and Thunder</i>, <i>Hellhound On His Trail</i>, and, most recently, <i>In the Kingdom of Ice</i>.</p>

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