Review: Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee

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Dear Student,
The response I provided for you below looks at varied perspectives into the work of Dee Brown. I decided to discuss the American Situation at the time of his publication to explain why it seemed timely & was well-received as well as the manner by which his book was accepted by the American public. While I did go on to look at particular characters & situations from the book itself, I did not concentrate on discussing their particulars alone; I decided to relate it to the idea of American manifest destiny & bring the discussion to that of the American role in the Cold War, in the affairs in South East Asia through the Vietnam War & the present American situation especially that of the war on terror. The book is expansive, presenting a review of it requires one to pick a particular section to present a tone only as a comprehensive review will take more than 1,500 words. I hope the response below helps, use it as your guide. I have presented it in APA format so that you can refer to it when you write your final report. Use the references I presented as well. Attached is a word version, print it for your use.

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American History: A discussion of Brown's Book on the Indian Experience (1860-1890)

Book: Bury My heart At Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West
By: Dee Brown,
Year of first Publication: 1970
Publisher: Holt, Rhinehart & Winston: NY

Brown & the Book's Release

Dee Brown at the time of the publication of this tome was historian and head Librarian of the University of Illinois. The years leading up to 1970 was fraught with images of the Vietnam War, the proxy war with Communism that lead to the ultimate American involvement in national & political affairs in the South East Asian region. From the end of WW2 to the year of Brown's publication, the American Consciousness was tuned to the Cold War although by that very year, it seems, anti-war movement has gathered momentum as images of the violence in Vietnam assaulted the public on TV, newspapers and the general media. America was counting its war dead and the then administration were held to blame for the massive loss of young American Lives in a war in a foreign land that seem doomed. While Vietnam of today hardly retains traces of its communist-self in the said period (a lot like Iraq or Afghanistan of the present, albeit carrying a different reason for the necessity of armed conflict) & is a happy player in global economic & political affairs; back then Vietnam forced the American nation to look deeper into itself as coffin after coffin returned carrying the bodies of young American G.I.'s with much of the ...