In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the Fbi's War on the American Indian Movement

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the Fbi's War on the American Indian Movement - Paperback

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In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the Fbi's War on the American Indian Movement - Paperback

In the Spirit of Crazy Horse: The Story of Leonard Peltier and the Fbi's War on the American Indian Movement - Paperback

by Peter Matthiessen
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Book Overview

by Peter Matthiessen (Author), Martin Garbus (Afterword by)

An "indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent" (Los Angeles Times Book Review) chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists by renowned writer Peter Matthiessen (1927-2014), author of the National Book Award-winning The Snow Leopard and the novel In Paradise

On a hot June morning in 1975, a desperate shoot-out between FBI agents and Native Americans near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, left an Indian and two federal agents dead. Four members of the American Indian Movement were indicted on murder charges, and one, Leonard Peltier, was convicted and is now serving consecutive life sentences in a federal penitentiary. Behind this violent chain of events lie issues of great complexity and profound historical resonance, brilliantly explicated by Peter Matthiessen in this controversial book. Kept off the shelves for eight years because of one of the most protracted and bitterly fought legal cases in publishing history, In the Spirit of Crazy Horse reveals the Lakota tribe's long struggle with the U.S. government, and makes clear why the traditional Indian concept of the earth is so important at a time when increasing populations are destroying the precious resources of our world.

Author Biography

Peter Matthiessen was the cofounder of the Paris Review and is the author of numerous works of nonfiction, including In the Spirit of Crazy Horse, Indian Country, and The Snow Leopard, winner of the National Book Award.

Number of Pages: 688
Dimensions: 1.22 x 8.34 x 5.51 IN
Publication Date: March 01, 1992
ISBN9780140144567
Author Peter Matthiessen
PublisherPenguin Books
GenreHistory and Education
FormatPaperback
PublishedMarch 1992
LanguageENG- English
Pages688
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Peter Matthiessen was born in New York City in 1927 and had already begun his writing career by the time he graduated from Yale University in 1950. The following year, he was a founder of The Paris Review. Besides At Play in the Fields of the Lord, which was nominated for the National Book Award, he published six other works of fiction, including Far Tortuga and Killing Mister Watson. Matthiessen's parallel career as a naturalist and explorer resulted in numerous widely acclaimed books of nonfiction, among them The Tree Where Man Was Born, which was nominated for the National Book Award, and The Snow Leopard, which won it. Matthiessen died in 2014.

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