IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE
by Matthiessen, Peter; (Martin Garbus, Afterword)
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine/Near Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0670836176
- ISBN 13
- 9780670836178
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About This Item
New York, NY: Viking, 1991. First Edition, 3rd Impression, 1964 . Hardcover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Text/NEW & Bright. Bi-color boards/Fine. DJ/NF; under mylar. Light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to text blocks. Documentary of the 1975 shoot-out between Native-Americans & the FBI on the Pine Ridge Reservation, near Wounded Knee, South Dakota, which took the lives of 2 FBI agents. First published 1983, due to legal challenges, the book was suspended until 1991. This edition carries an Epilogue recounting the legal issues & an Afterword from Martin Garbus. Author, novelist & environmental activist Peter Matthiessen (1927 - ), twice recipient of the Nat'l Book Award & long interested in Native American issues, finds faults in the court conclusions. Excerpts of this detailed study of convicted murderer Leonard Peltier (1944 -) of Lakota & Dakota lineage, first appeared in the New York Times. 625 pgs, 20 chapters in 3 Books.
Synopsis
"A giant of a book. Indescribably touching, extraordinarily intelligent." The Los Angeles Times Book Review . Matthiessen's chronicle of a fatal gun-battle between FBI agents and American Indian Movement activists in 1975.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 020187
- Title
- IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE
- Author
- Matthiessen, Peter; (Martin Garbus, Afterword)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 3rd Impression, 1964
- ISBN 10
- 0670836176
- ISBN 13
- 9780670836178
- Publisher
- Viking
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1991
- Keywords
- Documentary/History/American Indian Movement/Government Policy/Leonard Peltier/Pine Ridge Reservation
- Bookseller catalogs
- Anthropology/Ethnology;
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