Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America

T.J. Stiles

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Lingua: inglese

Editore: Knopf, 2015

0307592642 / 9780307592644

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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%u2019s legacy has been ignored. He demolishes Custer%u2019s historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person%u2014capable 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%u2019s lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation%u2019s 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%u2019s 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. Former library book. Mylar protector included. Solid binding. Moderate edgewear on the boards. Moderate shelf wear. Please note the image in this listing is a stock photo and may not match the covers of the actual item.…

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Titolo
Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America
Autore
T.J. Stiles
Editore
Knopf
Anno di pubblicazione
2015
Condizione
Good
Sovraccoperta
Good
Tipo di libro
Ex-Library
Rilegatura
Hardcover
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
0307592642
ISBN 13
9780307592644

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