The Killing of Crazy Horse.(Book review)

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Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Thomas Powers is the author of several nonfiction works, including The Man Who Kept the Secrets: Richard Helms and the CIA (1979) and Heisenberg's War: The Secret History of the German Bomb (1993).

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THE TOPIC: After an 1874 U.S. Army expedition discovered gold in the Sioux's sacred Black Hills, the government attempted to wrest the land from the natives, launching a military campaign that that would result in the Great Sioux War of 1876-77. Already famous for his cunning and bravery in battle, Lakota chief Crazy Horse distinguished himself in the ferocious fighting that ensued, but his popularity would be met with jealousy and …