Inventing Custer
The Making of an American Legend
1st Edition
Published on 3. September 2015
388 pages
978-1-4422-5187-8 (ISBN)
Description
Custer's Last Stand remains one of the most iconic events in American history and culture. Had Custer prevailed at the Little Bighhorn, the victory would have been noteworthy at the moment, worthy of a few newspaper headlines. In defeat, however tactically inconsequential in the larger conflict, Custer became legend. In Inventing Custer: The Making of an American Legend, Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown bridge the gap between the Custer who lived and the one we've immortalized and mythologized into legend. While too many books about Custer treat the Civil War period only as a prelude to the Little Bighorn, Caudill and Ashdown present him as a product of the Civil War, Reconstruction Era, and the Plains Indian Wars. They explain how Custer became mythic, shaped by the press and changing sentiments toward American Indians, and show the many ways the myth has evolved and will continue to evolve as the United States continues to change.
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Series
Edition
1. Auflage
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
Illustrations
4 BW Illustrations, 5 BW Photos, 5 Maps
ISBN-13
978-1-4422-5187-8 (9781442251878)
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Book
09/2015
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
€73.32
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Persons
Edward Caudill and Paul Ashdown are professors of journalism and electronic media at the University of Tennessee. They are co-authors of Sherman's March in Myth and Memory (2008) The Myth of Nathan Bedford Forrest (2005) and The Mosby Myth: A Confederate Hero in Life and Legend (2002).
Content
Chapter One. Introduction
Chapter Two. Custer Before the Civil War
Chapter Three. Custer During the Civil War
Chapter Four. Custer in the West and the Last Stand
Chapter Five. Custer in the News
Chapter Six. The Frontier and the Fittest
Chapter Seven. Custer Among the Historians
Chapter Eight. Custer in Literature and Popular Culture
Chapter Nine. Custer in Myth and Memory
Chapter Ten. Conclusions/Custer in the Future
Chapter Two. Custer Before the Civil War
Chapter Three. Custer During the Civil War
Chapter Four. Custer in the West and the Last Stand
Chapter Five. Custer in the News
Chapter Six. The Frontier and the Fittest
Chapter Seven. Custer Among the Historians
Chapter Eight. Custer in Literature and Popular Culture
Chapter Nine. Custer in Myth and Memory
Chapter Ten. Conclusions/Custer in the Future
