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Benazir Bhutto returned to Pakistan in October 2007, after eight
years of exile, hopeful that she could be a catalyst for change.
Upon a tumultuous reception, she survived a suicide-bomb attack
that killed nearly two hundred of her compatriots. But she
continued to forge ahead, with more courage and conviction than
ever, since she knew that time was running out--for the future of
her nation and for her life.
In Reconciliation, Bhutto recounts in gripping detail her final
months in Pakistan and offers a bold new agenda for how to stem the
tide of Islamic radicalism and to rediscover the values of
tolerance and justice that lie at the heart of her religion. She
speaks out not just to the West but also to the Muslims across the
globe. Bhutto presents an image of modern Islam that defies the
negative caricatures often seen in the West. After reading this
book, it will become even clearer what the world has lost by her
assassination.
The Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument is the site of one
of America's most famous armed struggles, but the events
surrounding Custer's defeat there in 1876 are only the beginning of
the story. As park custodians, American Indians, and others have
contested how the site should be preserved and interpreted for
posterity, the Little Bighorn has turned into a battlefield in more
ways than one. In Stricken Field, one of America's foremost
military historians offers the first comprehensive history of the
site and its administration in more than half a century.Jerome A.
Greene has produced a compelling account of one of the West's most
hallowed and controversial attractions, beginning with the battle
itself and ending with the establishment of an American Indian
memorial early in the twenty-first century. Chronicling successive
efforts of the War Department and the National Park Service to
oversee the site, Greene describes the principal issues that have
confounded its managers, from battle observances and memorials to
ongoing maintenance, visitor access, and public use. Stricken Field
is a cautionary tale. Greene elucidates the conflict between the
Park Service's dual mission to provide public access while
preserving the integrity of a historical resource. He also traces
the complex events surrounding the site, including Indian protests
in the 1970s and 1980s that ultimately contributed to the 2003
dedication of a monument finally recognizing the Lakotas, Northern
Cheyennes, and other American Indians who fought there.
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Interweaving American history, dramatic family chronicle and
searing episodes of memoir, On Juneteenth recounts the origins of
the holiday that celebrates the emancipation of those who had been
enslaved in the United States. A descendant of enslaved people
brought to Texas in the 1850s, Annette Gordon-Reed, explores the
legacies of the holiday. From the earliest presence of black people
in Texas-in the 1500s, well before enslaved Africans arrived in
Jamestown-to the day in Galveston on 19 June 1865, when General
Gordon Granger announced the end of slavery, Gordon-Reed's
insightful and inspiring essays present the saga of a "frontier"
peopled by Native Americans, Anglos, Tejanos and Blacks that became
a slaveholder's republic. Reworking the "Alamo" framework,
Gordon-Reed shows that the slave-and race-based economy not only
defined this fractious era of Texas independence, but precipitated
the Mexican-American War and the resulting Civil War. A
commemoration of Juneteenth and the fraught legacies of slavery
that still persist, On Juneteenth is a stark reminder that the
fight for equality is on-going.
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