Description: Product Description : Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America Winner of the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for HistoryFrom 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 timesIn this magisterial biography T J Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope proving how much of Custers legacy has been ignored He demolishes Custers historical caricature revealing a volatile contradictory intense personcapable yet insecure intelligent yet bigoted passionate yet selfdestructive a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military he was courtmartialed twice in six yearsThe 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 WestHe 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 Custers lifetime Americans saw their world remade His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nations 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 Custers 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 nearmythic American figure a man both widely known and little understood( it is an used product )
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Brand: Stiles, T.J.
UPC: 9780307592644
MPN: 24 Pp Photographs + 6 Maps
Model No: 24 Pp Photographs + 6 Maps
Country of Origin: USA United States
Net Quantity/Number of Units: 1
Dimensions LxWxH - Cms: 7X1.5X9.5
ISBN-10: 307592642
ISBN-13: 9780307592644
SKU: SONG0307592642
Edition: First Edition
No. of Pages: 608
Type: Books
Book Title: Custer's Trials : Alife on the Frontier of a New America
Number of Pages: 608 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2015
Topic: United States / 19th Century, United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Id, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), Historical, Military, Native American
Item Height: 0.5 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 34 Oz
Author: T. J. Stiles
Item Length: 9.6 in
Item Width: 6.6 in
Format: Hardcover
