Kamis, 13 April 2017

Reviews- Armchair General May 2015

Shooting Arrows and Slinging Mud: Custer, the Press, and the Little Bighorn by James Mueller (University of Oklahoma Press, 2013). In this insightful and illuminating book, the actual 1876 Battle of the Little Bighorn – Custer’s Last Stand – takes a back seat to the critical examination of how the press reported it. The openly …

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