ISBN10: 0312263805, ISBN13: 9780312263805, [publisher: St Martin's Press, New York] Softcover Paperback. In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the DNC unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices. Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1977 for the murder of two FBI agents, offers his long awaited memoir. Already made into a documentary by Robert Redford ("Incident at Ogala"), Peltier's story is reportedly the basis of an upcoming film by Oliver Stone. Illustrations. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the ...
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ISBN10: 0312263805, ISBN13: 9780312263805, [publisher: St Martin's Press, New York] Softcover Paperback. In September of 2022, twenty-five years after Leonard Peltier received a life sentence for the murder of two FBI agents, the DNC unanimously passed a resolution urging President Joe Biden to release him. Peltier has affirmed his innocence ever since his sentencing in 1977--his case was made fully and famously in Peter Matthiessen's bestselling In the Spirit of Crazy Horse--and many remain convinced he was wrongly convicted. Prison Writings is a wise and unsettling book, both memoir and manifesto, chronicling his life in Leavenworth Prison in Kansas. Invoking the Sun Dance, in which pain leads one to a transcendent reality, Peltier explores his suffering and the insights it has borne him. He also locates his experience within the history of the American Indian peoples and their struggles to overcome the federal government's injustices. Edited by Harvey Arden, with an Introduction by Chief Arvol Looking Horse, and a Preface by former Attorney General Ramsey Clark. Native American activist Leonard Peltier, who was sentenced to life in prison in 1977 for the murder of two FBI agents, offers his long awaited memoir. Already made into a documentary by Robert Redford ("Incident at Ogala"), Peltier's story is reportedly the basis of an upcoming film by Oliver Stone. Illustrations. Shipping may be from our Sydney, NSW warehouse or from our UK ...
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