Wounded Knee by Heather Cox Richardson
On December 29, 1890, American troops opened fire with howitzers on hundreds of unarmed Lakota Sioux men, women, and children near Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota, killing nearly 300 Sioux. As acclaimed historian Heather Cox Richardson shows in Wounded Knee, the massacre grew out of a set of political forces all too familiar to us today: fierce partisanship, heated political rhetoric, and an irresponsible, profit-driven media. Richardson tells a dramatically new story about the Wounded Knee massacre, revealing that its origins lay not in the West but in the corridors of political power back East. Politicians in Washington, Democrat and Republican alike, sought to set the stage for mass murder by exploiting an age-old political toolfear. Assiduously researched and beautifully written, Wounded Knee will be the definitive account of an epochal American tragedy.
Richardson, Heather Cox: -
Heather Cox Richardson is an American historian and professor of history at Boston College. Her daily newsletter, Letters from an American, has over a half million subscribers. The author of How the South Won the Civil War, West from Appomattox, The Greatest Nation of the Earth, and The Death of Reconstruction, she splits her time between Boston and Maine.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780465009213 |
| ISBN 10 | 0465009212 |
| Title | Wounded Knee |
| Author | Heather Cox Richardson |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Basic Books |
| Year published | 2010-05-25 |
| Number of pages | 392 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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