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Like a number of scholars, novelists and moviemakers, Dee Brown, Western historian and head librarian at the University of Illinois, now attempts to balance the account. With the zeal of an IRS investigator, he audits U.S. history's forgotten set of books. Compiled from old but rarely exploited sources plus a fresh look at dusty Government documents. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee tallies the broken pronrses 'tnd treaties, the provocations, massacres. discriminatory policies and condescending diplomacy...
...zeal soon rubbed off on the members of the ten agencies involved in the Strike Force. He helped question witnesses, accompanied agents to rendezvous with informers, and personally arranged protection for informers and their families, sometimes moving them across country to new jobs under new names. He brought a representative of each enforcement agency-with the exception of the FBI, which preferred to operate from its own office near by-into a single headquarters, and encouraged them to work across jurisdictional boundaries. The result has been indictments against public officials ranging from cops on the beat to Newark...
...churches in terms of "embattled," the Salvation Army seems as foursquare and unchanging as the crisp Victorian bonnets still worn by its ladies. It is almost as if Norman Rockwell had painted the scenes on the mind. Bright-smiling women, their cheeks pinked only with the flush of zeal, ladling out free dinners in a Skid Row mission. Clear-eyed men in high military collars, tootling on flügelhorns and euphoniums on chilly street corners. A brisk song, a quaint sermon. A bunk for the stumbling drunk. Even that perennial embarrassment, an outstretched tambourine and a copy...
...also done the conventional things: campaigning tirelessly for liberal causes, dining with Henry Kissinger, out-wrestling movie moguls (said Hal Wallis: "Without me, she'd be a fading chorus girl instead of a fading star"). Most of all she has researched her roles with a zeal that beggars even the Method. One of the book's highlights recounts Shirley's prepping for Irma, which in part consisted of peeking through a peephole in the bedroom door of a Paris brothel, watching the top performer...
...nearly half a century, under eight Presidents and 16 Attorneys General, J. Edgar Hoover has commanded the Federal Bureau of Investigation with the zeal and jealous authority of a Chinese war lord, protecting the U.S. against enemies within and his agency's turf against all meddling from without. Today, at 75, Hoover directs an army of more than 7,000 agents-with an extra 1,000 reinforcements on the way, authorized this year by Congress...