IN THE SPIRIT OF CRAZY HORSE. Signed by Matthiessen.
New York: Viking, 1983.
1st Edition. Soft cover. True First Edition. Advanced Uncorrected Proof Signed by Peter Matthiessen on the title-page. A near fine or better copy in the publisher's yellow stiff card wrappers, printed in black. 8vo. 562 pp.
A controversial work of investigative nonfiction examining the 1975 trial of Leonard Peltier of the American Indian Movement, convicted in the deaths of two FBI agents on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, arguing prosecutorial misconduct and judicial irregularities.
Subject to a defamation suit by former FBI agents alleging misconduct in the investigation, resulting in temporary suppression of the first edition; later cleared and reissued in revised form (1991).
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