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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Stiles, T. J., author.     Subjects     Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876.     United States. Army -- Biography.     Generals -- United States -- Biography.     Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.     Indians of North America -- Wars -- Great Plains.     United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Stiles, T. J., author.       by title:      Custer's trials : a ...         MARC Display

Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America / T.J. Stiles. by Stiles, T. J., author. New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. Subjects Custer, George A. (George Armstrong), 1839-1876.   United States. Army -- Biography.   Generals -- United States -- Biography.   Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876.   Indians of North America -- Wars -- Great Plains.   United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865. ISBN:  9780307592644 (hardcover) : 0307592642 (hardcover) Description:  xxi, 582 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  A new biography of Gen. George Armstrong Custer that radically 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.--Adapted from book jacket. Awards:  Pulitzer Prize, History, 2016.   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Language, Literature & History 973.82092 Custer St Checked In Add Copy to MyList Hilo Public Library Adult Nonfiction 973.82092 Custer Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kailua-Kona Public Library Adult Biography B Custer St Checked In Add Copy to MyList Kihei Public Library Adult Biography B Custer St Checked In Add Copy to MyList Mililani Public Library Adult Biography B Custer St Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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