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by Evan S Connell

Author:

Evan S Connell

ISBN13:

978-0060970031

ISBN:

0060970030

Language:

English

Publisher:

Harper & Row; 1st Perennial Library ed edition (1985)

Category:

Biography

Subcategory:

Historical

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Evan S. Connell has received numerous prizes and awards for his writing and is the author of sixteen books of fiction . Among the top ten history books I have ever read

He lives in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Among the top ten history books I have ever read. absorbing to the point of obsession. 2 people found this helpful.

Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as 'one of our most . And it works Connell’s extracts from their correspondence and the books both wrote--Custer’s My Life on the Plains and the widowed Libby’s.

I hesitate to call it this, but Son of the Morning Star is a Custer mood piece. Connell’s extracts from their correspondence and the books both wrote--Custer’s My Life on the Plains and the widowed Libby’s three volumes of hagiography--shows us people who believed in cavaliers and damsels, who framed the frontier as an arena for their fantasies of chivalry and romance. These people inhabited books in a way that Americans of 2009 simply cannot.

A runaway bestseller in hardcover and paperback, Son of the Morning Star will now bring the adventurous tale of General George Armstrong Custer to a new, even wider audience. Ties in to a two-part CBS television miniseries airing this summer. 'A new American classic.

Автор: Evan S. Connell Название: Son of the Morning Star Издательство: Holtzbrink(MPS)/MPS Классификация . But the Corps' triumphs did not come without costs, and O'Connell writes of those, too, including a culture of violence that sometimes spread beyond the battlefield.

But the Corps' triumphs did not come without costs, and O'Connell writes of those, too, including a culture of violence that sometimes spread beyond the battlefield.

Bridge, Mr. Bridge, Son of the Morning Star. He also published under the name Evan S. Connell Jr. His writing covered a variety of genres, although he published most frequently in fiction.

Bridge, Mr. Evan Shelby Connell Jr. (August 17, 1924 – January 10, 2013) was a . novelist, poet, and short-story writer. In 2009, Connell was nominated for the Man Booker International Prize, for lifetime achievement

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Son of the Morning Star is a 1991 American two-part television miniseries released by Chrysalis based on Evan S. Connell's best-selling book of the same name. It starred Gary Cole (General Custer) and featured Dean Stockwell (General Philip Sheridan), Rosanna Arquette (Elizabeth Custer), Rodney A. Grant (Crazy Horse), Nick Ramus (Red Cloud), Buffy Sainte-Marie (voice of Kate Bighead), and Floyd Red Crow Westerman (Sitting Bull).

The author Evan S. Ralph Crane/The LIFE Picture Collection, via Getty Images. The movie recreates one of the book’s great scenes, which takes place during a tornado at the dreary country club to which the Bridges belong. Continue reading the main story.

Bladebringer

I'll keep this short due to other reviews. I've read other works by Philbrick and Donovan about the battle in Montana in 1876. I've also read various works, and spent hours watching videos online. This book by one Connell being the third I've read in regards to the aforementioned. This is my favorite of the 3, and found it fantastic. However, if you're new to this subject, I recommend not reading this first! It bounces back and forth between history, and I found it both enlightening and refreshing. Great job composing this masterpiece.

Insanity

I assumed "the illustrated edition" meant a wealth of photos, maybe even one to a page. Not one single photograph. The regular version of this book has more pictures.
So what does it have? Three fold-out versions of some old paintings of the type once hung behind the bar in various beer joints in North America. Of course, as I'm sure you realize, these paintings don't have one thing to do with the historical battle of the Little Bighorn but are just some artists imaginings from back East based on not one thing of historical value.
So, this is a king size rip off. What a disappointment. Don't waste your hard-earned rubles on this, just buy the regular version. I wish I had.

Virtual

This book is highly recommended without reservation, (pun intended) to those who are interested in Lt. Colonel George Armstrong Custer's role in the wars against the Native American Indians in 1876. I had read this book many years ago, and loaned it out, whereupon it grew legs and didn't return; after getting this copy and getting into the story again, I can easily see why. The author is a master raconteur, totally immersed in his subject, and brings this event, and the players on both sides vividly to life. The background about where Custer lived in New Rumley, Ohio, his career as a teacher before his appointment to West Point Military Academy, and his subsequent success in the American Civil War, which saw him promoted to General Officer rank, is as well done here as the seminal event of his life, that of the Big Horn Campaign. Reverting to a lower permanent rank after the War ended, Custer seems to have been consumed with regaining his lost prestige and perhaps pay, by deeds of valor, or some might say imprudence, in an effort to rise above his humble beginnings. He had "married up" in the social scale of things, and probably never forgot that fact; his efforts were amply repaid by his wife "Libby", who outliving her husband by more than 50-years, spent the remainder of her life in burnishing her husbands image and supreme sacrifice. The side stories of his subordinates Reno and Benteen add a flavor of the problems that existed with poor communications in the command decision making process, almost like the problems that caused the destruction of the British Light Brigade of Calvary in the Crimean War twenty years earlier (see "The Reason Why"). Son of the Morning Star is the type of book that teaches you something new on each new reading. Regardless of your position on the U. S. government vs. the Native Americans, this is an exciting look at the 1870's in the wild West, the people and events that shaped our country, and our national image and identity.

Whitesmasher

Like most of the other reviewers, I LOVED this book, and found it completely fascinating. However unlike many reviewers, I believe that the book is well laid out with an organization that in retrospect makes complete sense. It didn't take me more than a few pages to be captured by Connell's skills in presenting the story.

The book's organization (IMO) has five main sections:

1) Using the inquest of the battle as background, the major people on both sides are introduced. However GAC himself is mostly talked around, this section focuses on who saw him during the battle, and where he was found...

2) An extensive background and history of relations and interactions between the tribes, settlers, the government, and the military is presented. Significant incidents are examined in detail. There's a fair amount of tribal culture presented.

3) The career of GAC is presented in general historical order - lots of 3rd party quotes, and anecdotal detail

4) GAC and the 7th's journey into Montana and Little Bighorn is presented in detail. The battle, told originally via the inquest, is retold as it unfolds.

5) The clock jumps forward, and the major people involved are revisited years later.

Basically you get Little Bighorn twice, first with no context, later with a lot of it. Yes this is an oversimplification, and yes there are many sidetracks and illustrative vignettes along the way. Perhaps this is unconventional, but I totally agree with the blurb on the book - "brilliantly constructed". Above this, Evan Connell's skill with words, his ability to find fantastic quotes and work them into just the right place and to put the "story" into history makes this a very enjoyable and educational read.

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