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A Pyschiatric View of Custer,
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This review is from: Custer and the Little Big Horn: A Psychobiographical Inquiry (Hardcover)
A psychiatrist's view of Custer is quite interesting as the author brigs full focus on Custer's up bringing and environment and how it effected him. Also covers the unique relationship that Custer had with his wife, an inseperable dependent relationship.
The author gives a brief history of the campaign that is a little naive based compared to more recent reserach. The author defines Cuser's need for rash behavior but I think the jury is still out on what Custer was attempting to do at the LBH. If he he stopped short of the LBH to attempt to regroup with all his battalions that would be a logical action after he became aware that Reno evacuated from the valley unfortunately in a rout. The failure was capitolized by a very late attempt to follow Custer's trail by two malcontent subordinates. A fascinating book nevertheless but I think taking a more detailed look at Custer's action at the LBH takes more thought which could have given the book a boost. One has to remember that the Indians were suppose to run and the Colonel that failed to sustain an attack for Crook that March was almost court martialed.
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A Unique and Interesting Book,
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This review is from: Custer and the Little Big Horn: A Psychobiographical Inquiry (Hardcover)
I rated this book a 5-star for the simple reason of its uniqueness. What a great approach by the author. Let's face facts about Custer & the Little Bighorn. There are only so many angles you can take on telling and retelling of what historians and others think happened. Charles Hofling takes another approach in that he analyzes Custer's personality. He looks at how different periods of his life and career were affected by events that happened to him. I especially like Chapter 10 of this book in which he goes into some detail on these events. This book greatly adds another view and perspective to the vast amount of Custer literature.
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