Description: Yesterday's Muse, Inc. presents ... Custer's Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America ISBN:0307475948 Author:Stiles, T.J. Publisher:Vintage Books Release Date:2016 Seller Category:-- Qty Available:1 Condition:Collectible: Excellent Sku: 2339223 Notes: First printing. Remainder mark, light edge wear. 2016 Trade Paperback. xxi, 582 pp. "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. Don't forget to check out other great deals in our eBay Store!!
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Book Title: Custer's Trials : Alife ON the Frontier of a New America
Item Length: 9.1in
Item Height: 1.3in
Item Width: 6.2in
Author: T. J. Stiles
Format: Trade Paperback
Language: English
Topic: United States / 19th Century, United States / State & Local / West (Ak, CA, Co, Hi, Idaho, Mt, Nv, Ut, WY), United States / Civil War Period (1850-1877), Ethnic Studies / Native American Studies, Historical, Military, Native American
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year: 2016
Genre: Biography & Autobiography, History, Social Science
Item Weight: 29.2 Oz
Number of Pages: 640 Pages
