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082 00 973.8/2092|aB|223 
092 0  973 Custer|bengelska 
100 1  Stiles, T. J.,|eauthor 
245 10 Custer's trials :|ba life on the frontier of a new America
       /|cT.J. Stiles 
250    First edition 
264  1 New York :|bAlfred A. Knopf,|c2015 
264  4 |c©2015 
300    xxi, 582 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|2rdamedia 
338    volume|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-552) and 
       index 
505 8  Innehåll: 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 
520    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 
586    Pulitzer Prize for History, 2016 
600 17 Custer, George A.|q(George Armstrong),|d1839-1876.|2fast 
611 07 Little Bighorn, Battle of the (Montana : 1876).|2fast 
610 24 United States.|bArmy 
611 27 American Civil War (1861-1865).|2fast 
648  7 1861-1876|2fast 
650  0 Little Bighorn, Battle of the, Mont., 1876 
650  0 Indians of North America|xWars|zGreat Plains 
650  7 Frontier and pioneer life|2fast 
650  7 Generals.|2fast 
650  7 Indians of North America|xWars.|2fast 
650  7 Indiankrigen|2sao 
650  7 Generaler|2sao 
650  7 Amerikanska inbördeskriget 1861-1865|2sao 
651  0 United States|xHistory|yCivil War, 1861-1865 
651  4 Förenta staterna 
651  7 Great Plains 
651  7 Montana 
651  7 United States 
653    USA 
655  7 Biografi|2saogf 
655  7 Biography.|2fast 
655  7 History.|2fast 
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