Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Brown, Dee

ISBN 10: 1433293439 ISBN 13: 9781433293436

Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks, 2009

Synopsis

Dee Brown's eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian during the second half of the nineteenth century uses council records, autobiographies, and firsthand descriptions. Brown allows great chiefs and warriors of the Dakota, Ute, Sioux, Cheyenne, and other tribes to tell us in their own words of the battles, massacres, and broken treaties that finally left them demoralized and defeated. A unique and disturbing narrative told with force and clarity, Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee forever changed our vision of how the West was really won—and lost.

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Review:

"Shattering, appalling, compelling...One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages." --William McPherson, "The Washington Post" "Extraordinarily powerful." --Nat Hentoff "Original, remarkable, and finally heartbreaking . . . Impossible to put down. "-"The New York Times"

Review:

"Original, remarkable and finally heartbreaking...Impossible to put down" (New York Times)

"Shattering, appalling, compelling" (Washington Post)

"An essential insight into modern America" (Daily Telegraph)

"Calculated to make the head pound, the heart ache and the blood boil" (The Times)

About this edition

• Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks
• Publication date: 2009
• ISBN 10: 1433293439
• ISBN 13: 9781433293436
• Binding: Audio CD