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Custer By Larry McMurtry, Simon & Schuster Larry McMurtry, who won the Pulitzer Prize for his sprawling novel Lonesome Dove, admits that his slim new biography of George Armstrong Custer is no rival for Evan S. Connell’s masterful 1984 Son of the Morning Star. After all, Connell’s 448-page study became a critically acclaimed best seller, …
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Close Call at Crooked BilletOrdered to cut off supplies to British troops occupying Philadelphia, a young Patriot officer played a deadly game of cat and mouse. Just before midnight on April 30, 1778, Brig. G… Read MoreDaily Quiz for April 17, 2017Peabody, Emmy and Edgar award winning writer, Michael Crichton, held a doctorate in this.
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… Read MoreTroubled WatersSterling Hayden sacrificed his sailing dreams, a budding Hollywood career, a marriage and his very name to aid communist rebels fighting the Axis onslaught in Yugoslavia. On Christ… Read MoreNapoléon’s Egyptian RiddleThough the young French general ultimately failed to wrest Egypt from the Mamluks, he did win the trust and support of his countrymen. Late on the wintry afternoon of Dec. 5, 1797,… Read MoreA Storm in Every PortThe sanguinary saga of Norwegian King Olaf Tryggvason relates his bloody raids, mercurial romances, warped religious convictions and ultimate fate. Lashed together, the 11 longship… Read More
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