Custer’s Last Stand
The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn
You’ve heard the tale of Sitting Bull’s pyrrhic victory at the Battle of Little Bighorn, but best-selling author and National Book Award-winner Nathaniel Philbrick brings a different perspective to the story. His account of General Custer’s defeat on the battlefield in 1876 is supplemented by biographical sketches of Custer and of Sitting Bull. Custer may not have been the strong-willed, passionate, and charismatic leader of our history books. What really happened on that fatal day in American military history? Philbrick makes the case for how Battle of Little Bighorn should really be remembered.
Guest:
Nathaniel Philbrick, author of The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of Little Big Horn (Viking).
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