Bob Drury and Tom Clavin are the New York Times bestselling authors of Halsey's Typhoon, Last Men Out, and The Last Stand of Fox Company, which won the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation's 2010 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award for nonfiction. They live in Manasquan, New Jersey, and Sag Harbor, New York, respectively.
"Astounding . . . A tour de force of historical storytelling . . .
The Heart of Everything That Is is grand in scope and beautifully
observed. . . . Together, [Drury and Clavin] have managed a feat of
scholarship that interweaves ethnological brilliance and an
insightful reinterpretation of Indian culture from the point of
view of the Sioux."-- "The Wichita Eagle"
"A ripping yarn . . . A quintessentially Western tale of bold
exploits, tough characters, brutal conditions and a lost way of
life, this sounds like the sort of story that practically tells
itself. Yet you only realize how little justice most popular
histories do to their source material when you come across a book,
like this one, that does everything right. It's customary to say of
certain nonfiction books -- gussied up with plenty of 'color' and
psychological speculation -- that they 'read like a novel, ' but
truth be told, most of the time we'd have to be talking about a
pretty mediocre novel. The Heart of Everything That Is, on the
other hand, resembles the good ones. There were times, turning its
pages, when I could almost smell the pines of the Black Hills, feel
the icy wind tearing down from Canada across the prairie and hear
the hooves of the buffalo pounding the earth."--Laura Miller
"Salon"
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