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Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
by Dee Brown | History | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0805066691 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0805066691 Global Overview for this book
2 journalers for this copy...
First published in hardcover in 1971 by Holt, Rinehart and Winston. Thirtieth Anniversary Edition 2001. An Owl book, Henry Holt and Company, New York. Paperback, 487 pages.
Cover design by Lisa Fyfe.
The blurb:
”Shattering, appalling, compelling ... One wonders, reading this searing, heartbreaking book, who, indeed, were the savages.”
—William McPherson, The Washington Post
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee brown’s eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian 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.
Using 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 changed forever our vision of how the West was really won.
”Extraordinarily powerful.”
—Nat Hentoff
“A fascinating, painful document ... illustrated with magnificent Indian portraits.”
—Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal
“A first-rate account—strongly and ardently written.”
—The New Yorker
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Everyone should read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
I think I read it at work (yes, sometimes there really wasn’t much else to do!) during summer 1972. My reading experience was one to cherish. And so was the book itself; it was huge and heavy. I wanted to have a copy of my own and a certain Finnish bookseller promised to get it for me ASAP. I’m still waiting...
Decades later I decided to give in and buy this paperback. Haven’t read it yet, though. This book is therefore part of my personal collection. But I’m ready to lend it to someone who’s both a good friend and a good BC-friend — plus has this book on her WishList.
ETA Nov. 28, 2007: The book is now with Kemppu. She's kind enough to take it to Turku with her. Thanks, K!
Cover design by Lisa Fyfe.
The blurb:
—William McPherson, The Washington Post
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee is Dee brown’s eloquent, meticulously documented account of the systematic destruction of the American Indian 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.
Using 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 changed forever our vision of how the West was really won.
—Nat Hentoff
“A fascinating, painful document ... illustrated with magnificent Indian portraits.”
—Edmund Fuller, The Wall Street Journal
“A first-rate account—strongly and ardently written.”
—The New Yorker
*******
Everyone should read Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee.
I think I read it at work (yes, sometimes there really wasn’t much else to do!) during summer 1972. My reading experience was one to cherish. And so was the book itself; it was huge and heavy. I wanted to have a copy of my own and a certain Finnish bookseller promised to get it for me ASAP. I’m still waiting...
Decades later I decided to give in and buy this paperback. Haven’t read it yet, though. This book is therefore part of my personal collection. But I’m ready to lend it to someone who’s both a good friend and a good BC-friend — plus has this book on her WishList.
ETA Nov. 28, 2007: The book is now with Kemppu. She's kind enough to take it to Turku with her. Thanks, K!
Journal Entry 2 by Cinnamon234 from Turku, Varsinais-Suomi / Egentliga Finland Finland on Saturday, December 1, 2007
Thank you! The book arrived today safe and sound! Will be reading this after finishing a challenge by Tarna :)
Note! The book is on a loan from Tarna.
Note! The book is on a loan from Tarna.
Back home again, thanks C. Kiitos myös kahviseurasta. Oli tosi kiva nähdä pitkästä, pitkästä aikaa.
