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An Autobiography of General Custer

By: Stephen Brennan - editor
Narrated by: Jeff Talbott
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Narrator Jeffrey Talbott takes on this autobiography based on General George Armstrong Custer's own writings and manages to create a sympathetic voice for Custer. This is no small feat as the general is one of American history's most controversial figures, equally reviled and admired. Talbott deploys a no-frills performance to match Custer's own deliberate style as he reflects on his adventures and military exploits.

Custer's writings obviously end before the Battle of Little Bighorn, and editor Stephen Brennan wisely chooses to include an 1880s newspaper interview with Sitting Bull, offering a different take on the battle that listeners will find illuminating.

Summary

Taken from George Armstrong Custer's own writings, An Autobiography of General Custer is the “true story” of one of the most praised, most despised, but surely most remembered American military heroes. Indeed, few figures in our history were - in their own time, as well as in our own - so wildly cheered and so roundly hated.

Custer’s narration takes us from just after the Civil War, when, having gained a reputation as a bold and inventive leader of the cavalry, Custer was given command of an expedition to help subjugate the Native Peoples of the Great Plains and to force them onto reservations. His story touches on his own court martial and subsequent reinstatement to command. It ends shortly before he embarks upon the campaign that would eventually lead to the Battle of the Little Bighorn and “Custer’s Last Stand.” As Custer was unable to write about his most famous battle, the Autobiography concludes with an 1880s newspaper account of an interview with Sitting Bull himself after his escape to Canada, in which the great Chief looks back on the battle and offers his own point of view.

In the evenings, on post and during his various leaves, Custer would sit at the dining room table with his beloved wife, Libby, and together they would compose the various stories of his exploits that would eventually become the book My Life on the Plains, which was a best-seller in its time, and from which this autobiography is largely taken.

©2012 Stephen Brennan (P)2012 Audible, Inc.

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This was a very good listen.

While acknowledging that it was one persons point of view of events in which he participated and as often as not instigated, it was nevertheless intriguing and enlightening. Custer's acknowledgements of the "woke" brigades opinions of his actions - clearly they existed way back then - is I think, an attempt by he, to strike a balance. He comes across as a fair minded man and competent leader of men.
The narration was good.
It was like watching the events being played out on the big screen and therefore a positive testament to mid 20th century Hollywoods portrayal of the period and its events.
Enjoyable; Mick the Hick

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really good

just saw this had no reviews, so i thought i better write one, as it was really good. i had heard about Mr Custer before. some crazy prideful native hating cowboy. but this book gave a wonderful insight in to a man who was a great man, even admired by the natives. with a interview with a native about Mr Custer at the end. in fact the natives respected Custer so much they didn't even scalp him.

it does get a bit repetitive at the end, but i just coundnt put this one down.

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