The Resource Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America, T.J. Stiles
Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America, T.J. Stiles
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- Summary
- Historian T.J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, demonstrating how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He refutes 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. During Custer's lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. 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. 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. 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. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. 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 new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood
- Language
- eng
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxi, 582 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
- Contents
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- The Accused
- The Observer
- The Protégé
- The Prodigy
- The Women
- The General
- The Hero
- The Victor
- The Executioner
- The Politician
- The Fallen
- The Indian Killer
- The Financier
- The Writer
- The Enemy
- The Accuser
- Epilogue
- Isbn
- 9780307592644
- Label
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
- Title
- Custer's trials
- Title remainder
- a life on the frontier of a new America
- Statement of responsibility
- T.J. Stiles
- Subject
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- History
- Custer, George A., (George Armstrong), 1839-1876
- United States, Army
- Great Plains
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Wars
- Biography
- Biographies
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Biography
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
- Generals -- United States -- Biography
- United States
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Indians of North America -- Wars
- United States, Army -- Biography
- Montana
- Generals
- Custer, George A., (George Armstrong), 1839-1876
- 1861-1876
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the (Montana : 1876)
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- Historian T.J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, demonstrating how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He refutes 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. During Custer's lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. 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. 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. 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. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. 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 new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood
- Awards note
- Pulitzer Prize for History, 2016
- Biography type
- individual biography
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Stiles, T. J
- Dewey number
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- 973.8/2092
- B
- Illustrations
-
- illustrations
- maps
- plates
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- E467.1.C99
- LC item number
- S76 2015
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- Custer, George A.
- Generals
- United States
- United States
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
- Indians of North America
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Custer, George A.
- United States
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the (Montana : 1876)
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Generals
- Indians of North America
- Great Plains
- Montana
- United States
- Label
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America, T.J. Stiles
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-552) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Accused -- The Observer -- The Protégé -- The Prodigy -- The Women -- The General -- The Hero -- The Victor -- The Executioner -- The Politician -- The Fallen -- The Indian Killer -- The Financier -- The Writer -- The Enemy -- The Accuser -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 1616771
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxi, 582 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780307592644
- Lccn
- 2015002070
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40025398429
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
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- (Sirsi) 1616771
- (Sirsi) 1616771
- (OCoLC)900179749
- Label
- Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America, T.J. Stiles
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-552) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- The Accused -- The Observer -- The Protégé -- The Prodigy -- The Women -- The General -- The Hero -- The Victor -- The Executioner -- The Politician -- The Fallen -- The Indian Killer -- The Financier -- The Writer -- The Enemy -- The Accuser -- Epilogue
- Control code
- 1616771
- Dimensions
- 25 cm
- Edition
- First edition.
- Extent
- xxi, 582 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates
- Isbn
- 9780307592644
- Lccn
- 2015002070
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- n
- Other control number
- 40025398429
- Other physical details
- illustrations
- System control number
-
- (Sirsi) 1616771
- (Sirsi) 1616771
- (OCoLC)900179749
Subject
- 1861-1876
- American Civil War (1861-1865)
- Biographies
- Biography
- Custer, George A., (George Armstrong), 1839-1876
- Custer, George A., (George Armstrong), 1839-1876
- Frontier and pioneer life
- Frontier and pioneer life -- Biography
- Generals
- Generals -- United States -- Biography
- Great Plains
- History
- Indians of North America -- Great Plains -- Wars
- Indians of North America -- Wars
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the (Montana : 1876)
- Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876
- Montana
- United States
- United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865
- United States, Army
- United States, Army -- Biography
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