Custer's Trials : A Life on the Frontier of a New America by T. J. Stiles

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T-L02E1C102925
ISBN
9780307592644
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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0307592642
ISBN-13
9780307592644
eBay Product ID (ePID)
208660710

Product Key Features

Book Title
Custer's Trials : Alife on the Frontier of a New America
Number of Pages
608 Pages
Language
English
Publication Year
2015
Topic
United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Historical, Military
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Yes
Genre
Social Science, Biography & Autobiography, History
Author
T. J. Stiles
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
0.5 in
Item Weight
34 Oz
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Width
6.6 in

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Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2015-002070
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
"T. J. Stiles has written another splendid book, this one on George Armstrong Custer. Stiles portrays a real Custer, full of flaws but possessed of outstanding combat skills and leadership, both in the Civil War and on the western frontier. The biography easily overshadows its many predecessors, offering new facts and interpretations as well as a wonderful read."             --Robert Utley, former chief historian of the National Park Service and author of Cavalier in Buckskin: George Armstrong Custer and the Western Military Frontier
Dewey Decimal
973.8/2092 B
Synopsis
Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for History From the winner of two Pulitzer Prizes and a National Book Award, a brilliant biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. In this magisterial biography, T. J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, proving how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person--capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years). The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. He freed countless slaves yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. A talented combat leader, he struggled as a manager in the West. He tried to make a fortune on Wall Street yet never connected with the new corporate economy. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. A popular writer, he remained apart from Ambrose Bierce, Mark Twain, and other rising intellectuals. During Custer's lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation's gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer's tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood.
LC Classification Number
E467.1.C99S76 2015

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