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An edition of Wounded Knee (2010)

Wounded knee

party politics and the road to an American massacre

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Argues the fierce partisanship, heated political rhetoric, and an irresponsible, profit-driven media were responsible for the massacre of three hundred Lakota Sioux at Wounded Knee.

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Basic Books
Language
English
Pages
363

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2010, Basic Books
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Table of Contents

A new nation, a new economy
A divided nation
The westward march of civilization
Managing the west
A season of desperation
Once set in motion
The massacre
The aftermath.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. 319-353) and index.

Published in
New York, NY

Classifications

Library of Congress
E83.89 .R534 2010

The Physical Object

Pagination
vii, 363 p., [16] p. of plates
Number of pages
363

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL26887237M
ISBN 10
0465009212
ISBN 13
9780465009213
LCCN
2010009592
OCLC/WorldCat
435418532

Work Identifiers

Work ID
OL15169375W

Work Description

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 tool—fear. Assiduously researched and beautifully written, Wounded Knee will be the definitive account of an epochal American tragedy.

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