Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America.
[George Custer] Stiles, T.J.
Published by Knopf, 2015
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A Fine tight copy in a Fine unclipped dust jacket. In this 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. Seller Inventory # 26787
Bibliographic Details
Title: Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a...
Publisher: Knopf
Publication Date: 2015
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Fine
Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
Edition: 1st Edition