The Last Stand - Nathaniel Philbrick
Author Nathaniel Philbrick introduces his new book "The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Bighorn." ...
L.A. Times Review of “Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the ...
From the L. A. Times :. Nathaniel Philbrick. Nathaniel Philbrick, a Nantucket, Mass. The battle of Little Bighorn, where Custer and his U. S. Army forces were famously massacred, was transformed from a noble “last stand” into an idiotic boondoggle. For many young and impressionable readers in the 1960s, there was an incisive and hilarious book, Thomas Berger’s “Little Big Man,” that did more than any other to replace the outdated narrative of the Old West as a contest between cowboys (good... Director Arthur Penn’s movie version of “Little Big Man,” released in 1970 and starring Dustin Hoffman, gave this new perspective an even wider audience. -based historian and author of the maritime delights “Mayflower” and “In the Heart of the Sea” admits to having fallen under the sway of “Little Big Man,” as did countless others in our generation, believing it to be more accurate than the pap our......
But his title has a double meaning: in a sense, the Little Bighorn was a last stand for Sitting Bull, too. His dream of Indian independence proved a mirage:
Few events in American history have generated as much commentary as the 1876 Battle of Little Bighorn, and George Armstrong Custer has
