The definitive account of an epochal American tragedy
WOUNDED KNEE:
PARTY POLITICS AND THE ROAD
TO AN AMERICAN MASSACRE
Heather Cox Richardson
Basic Books / Perseus Books Group
$27.50 Hardcover
ISBN: 978-0-465-00921-3
June 2010
U.S. History / Native Americans / the American West
“Beyond grace and intelligence, what makes this book so important is that it demonstrates how one of the most tragic moments in all of American history is best understood not only as a spasm of genocidal violence, but as something emerging from the everyday processes of politics and culture in the late nineteenth century. It is precisely that mixture of the banal and the horrific that makes this book compelling, significant, and deeply troubling.”
– William Deverell, Director of the Huntington-USC Institute on California and the West
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ABOUT THE BOOK
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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Heather Cox Richardson is Professor of History at the University of Massachusetts-Amherst. She is the author of West from Appomattox, The Greatest Nation on Earth, and The Death of Reconstruction.
