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050	0	0	_aE467.1.C99 _bS76 2015
082	1		_a92 CUS _2
100	1		_aStiles, T.J.
245	1	0	_aCuster's trials : _ba life on the frontier of a new America _c/ T. J. Stiles
250			_aFirst edition
260			_aNew York _b: Alfred A. Knopf _c, c2015
300			_a582 p. _b: illus. _c; 24 cm
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index
505	0		_aRise 1839-1865 -- The accused -- The observer -- The protégé -- The prodigy -- The women -- The general -- The hero -- The victor -- Fall 1865-1876 -- The executioner -- The politician -- The fallen -- The Indian killer -- The financier -- The writer -- The enemy -- The accuser -- Epilogue.
520			_aA new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that changes our view of the man and his turbulent times. Historian 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. 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 surprising new light on a near-mythic American figure.
546			_aEnglish
586			_aWinner of the Pulitzer Prize
600	1	4	_aCuster, George Armstrong _d(, 1830-1876)
610	1	4	_aUnited States _b. Army _v--Biography
650		4	_aGenerals _z-United States _v--Biography
650		4	_aLittle Bighorn, Battle of, Mont. _y-1876
650		4	_aIndians of North America _x-Wars _z-Great Plains
651		4	_aUnited States _x-History _y-Civil war, 1861-1865
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