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Title: Crazy Horse and Custer : The Parallel Lives of Two American Warriors by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0-385-47966-2 Publisher: Anchor Pub. Date: 01 May, 1996 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.09 (35 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Thorough study, but not as good as his WWII books
Comment: Among Stephen Ambrose's earlier work was this effort, a study of the Western history he enjoyed greatly. The lives of Custer and Crazy Horse are compared throughout the book, noting their seemingly parallel lives to reach the ultimate clash that was the Little Big Horn battle. Crazy Horse was a sharp contrast to the flamboyant Custer, and their ultimate fates were also impossible to predict in their early days.
Throughout the book, the issues that shaped Western growth and expansion are addressed, as are their effects on the lives of these two men. There is a short section that follows the climactic battle, deatiling what happened after Little Big Horn for many of the people described in the book at one point or another.
A reader expecting another book similar to one of his World War II efforts might be disappointed, but it should be remembered that Ambrose didn't have veterans to discuss experiences with- only records and long-dated transcripts. As such, this is a much more difficult book to write, which should be taken into consideration. However, the book is not as well-written as the World War II books, which obviously benefitted from earlier writing experiences such as this. Overall, the book will teach you a lot about the Western settlement and its effects, and especially about two famous Americans that inevitably will be linked for all of history.
Rating: 5
Summary: Custer
Comment: Very interersting book about the blind luck that Custer had in life that failed him in the end. Interesting points about the life style of Native Americans. Well written like all of Ambrose's books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Heroes on the open prairie in 1876
Comment: The story of Crazy Horse and Custer is the story of two men, two societies and two ways of life. The story of the Sioux and those who tried to destroy them.
And when Ambrose tells the story you really get the feeling that this is all about us today. How we became who we are.
When Custer looked on a virgin forest, he envisioned sawmills, houses being build etc. Custer believed in progress, in the doctrine that things are going to be better.
Crazy Horse on the other hand saw the trees as they were at that moment. He lived in that moment. For Custer events marched forward, onward and upward. For Crazy Horse things were done because thats the way they had always been done.
Indeed, the European thought that a man should and could improve his station in life would have made little sense to Crazy Horse.
Ambrose lets us know that Custer might have been a buffoon, but he died for the thing called progress, the thing we, whites, also believes in.
Along the way we also get to know Crazy Horse, his love for Black Buffalo Women and his people, the Sioux. And it does seem just that Crazy Horse could outnumber and outmaneuver Custer on what is now Custers hill.
One final indian victory before the end.
An epic story where every little detail Stephen Ambrose tells us just makes us want more. A brilliant book!
-Simon
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Title: Undaunted Courage: Meriwether Lewis Thomas Jefferson and the Opening of the American West by Stephen Ambrose ISBN: 0684826976 Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 02 June, 1997 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: Nothing Like It In the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869 by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0743203178 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 06 November, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.00 |
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Title: To America : Personal Reflections of an Historian by Stephen Ambrose ISBN: B0000CAR5S Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 11 November, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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Title: D Day: June 6, 1944: The Climactic Battle of World War II by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 068480137X Publisher: Touchstone Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1995 List Price(USD): $17.00 |
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Title: PEGASUS BRIDGE by Stephen E. Ambrose ISBN: 0671671561 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 15 November, 1988 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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