The Last Stand: Custer, Sitting Bull, and the Battle of the Little Big Horn
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Unabridged CDs, 11 CDs, 14 hours Read by TBAThe bestselling author of Mayflower revisits one of the most iconic and misunderstood stories of the American West. The Barnes & Noble Review Philbrick's research seems to have led him to some tantalizing new finds, but how much The Last Stand adds to the agreed-on facts is a judgment best left to those most steeped in the lore. As literature, it isn't in a class with the most acclaimed of all Custer books: Evan S. Connell's 1984 Son of The Morning Star, to which Philbrick pays due tribute in his notes. Yet Connell's treatment of the material was primarily a triumph of style, and his saturnine reductiveness had a grating side. Less ostentatiously aestheticized and more compassionate, Philbrick's account is a better introduction for readers who want a clear picture of what happened and why we obsess about it.
