Review: Wert, Custer

Custer by Jeffry D. Wert

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


This is not as good a biography as either Custer's Trials or Touched by Fire. Wert soft-pedals things, like Custer's racism, that Stiles faces head on, and he doesn't offer the kaleidoscopic view that Barnett does. He's also not as good a writer as either of them. (Also, I think he's wrong about what happened at the Battle of the Little Bighorn.) In general, he seems more concerned to paint Custer in a favorable light than I think the historical facts quite warrant.

This isn't by any means a bad biography; I've just read better.



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