Bibliograph

Custer's trials, a life on the frontier of a new America, T. J. Stiles

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Custer's trials, a life on the frontier of a new America, T. J. Stiles

Language

eng

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Custer's trials

Nature of contents

bibliographydictionaries

Oclc number

922688370

Responsibility statement

T. J. Stiles

Sub title

a life on the frontier of a new America

Summary

From the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winner, a brilliant new 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 -- From the Hardcover edition

Table Of Contents

Rise 1839-1865 -- The accused -- The observer -- The protégé -- The prodigy -- The women -- The general -- The hero -- The victor -- Fall 1865-1876 -- The executioner -- The politician -- The fallen -- The Indian killer -- The financier -- The writer -- The enemy -- The accuser -- Epilogue

Target audience

adult

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