

Custer
Author: Larry McMurtry
Narrator: Henry Strozier
Unabridged: 2 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/06/2012
Author: Larry McMurtry
Narrator: Henry Strozier
Unabridged: 2 hr 55 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Recorded Books
Published: 11/06/2012
Larry McMurtry is the author of twenty-nine novels, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Lonesome Dove. His other works include two collections of essays, three memoirs, and more than thirty screenplays, including the coauthorship of Brokeback Mountain, for which he received an Academy Award. He lives in Archer City, Texas.
Most readers know Larry McMurtry as a fine writer of fiction, but fewer people know he is a master of the short biography. "Crazy Horse" is an example of such a biography. "Custer" isn't. Which is not to say that "Custer" is without its virtues and pleasures. "Custer" is a sumptuous coffee table boo......more
McMurtry On Custer On June 26, 1876, General George Custer led about 264 soldiers of the Seventh Cavalry into massacre by a combined force of plains Indians at the Battle of Little Bighorn. The Battle and Custer quickly became legendary. Many books have been written from varied perspectives about Cus......more
I haven't been a huge fan of biographies, but I love Larry McMurtry and he does a wonderful job. Shows you the brutality of both sides without being too graphic or too bogged down with dates.......more
I listened to this as an audiobook, but apparently it is also a gorgeous coffee table book. (See Bill's review here: [URL not allowed]) It was great as audio, although it would have been nice to see the pictures. McMurtry did a good, quick sketch of Custer & the events that led......more