T. J Stiles
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Historian T.J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, demonstrating how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He refutes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person -- capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years). The...
Author
Publisher
Books on Tape
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
Unabridged
Language
English
Description
A biography of the combative man whose genius and force of will created modern capitalism, documenting how Vanderbilt helped launch the transportation revolution, propel the Gold Rush, reshape Manhattan, and invent the modern corporation.
Author
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Formats
Description
In this brilliant biography T. J. Stiles offers a new understanding of the legendary outlaw Jesse James. Although he has often been portrayed as a Robin Hood of the old west, in this ground-breaking work Stiles places James within the context of the bloody conflicts of the Civil War to reveal a much more complicated and significant figure.
"Carries the reader scrupulously through James’s violent, violent life.... When [Stiles]…...
"Carries the reader scrupulously through James’s violent, violent life.... When [Stiles]…...