I’ve always wanted to know more about George Armstrong Custer. In the hands of Pulitzer Prize winning author T.J. Stiles, Custer’s life is sure to be a wonderful read. My copy of Custer’s Trials: A Life on the Frontier of a New America is already on the shelf. As Stiles says in this NPR interview, “We see him as the hero who died to spread civilization, or we see him as the bloodthirsty, arrogant military commander who has complete disregard for indigenous life, or we see him as the heroism and the valor that, you know, Americans imagine as being part of the American character. What we need to do is not get caught up in any one sense of Custer.”
