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Son of the Morning Star (1984)

por Evan S. Connell

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Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as "one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers," wrote what continues to be the most reliable--and compulsively readable--account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his meticulous research and novelist's eye for the story and detail to re-vreate the heroism, foolishness, and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.… (mais)
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OK biography of Custer. ( )
  kslade | Dec 8, 2022 |
Too few historians focus on honing the craft of writing. Too often, it is the novelists and journalists who know how to tell the story. Sadly, these good writers often over-estimate their historical research skills. Fortunately, the novelist Evan S. Connell was no slouch when it came to writing history. Son of the Morning Star is a rambling, dry-wit recount of the horrific Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 – "Custer’s last stand".

This fantastic book tells the story through anecdotes, half-heard rumours, and malicious lies. It is by no means chronological in the usual sense. In fact, negative reviewers of the book accuse it of being a hodge-podge, all over the place, lacking in clear chronology, etc. It absolutely is those things, but successfully. I knew next to nothing about Custer, the battle, the campaign, or America in the 1870s. Yet I learnt a lot despite the lack of the usual historical guideposts in this book.

The reality that Connell was trying to get across to us is that this battle and everything associated with it had been mythologised out of all perspective in the century preceding this book’s publication. In such an atmosphere, perhaps the best way of approaching the history was to report on the myths, the rumours, the colourful characters, and the ways it has all been retold over time.

By repeating the tall tales, and reporting the rumours, rehashing the lies, and so on (but always with a skeptical eye), Connell brings to us the complexities of the past. A pessimist might say that Son of the Morning Star shows the utter futility of historical research.

You don’t know what the 1870s were like. Nor do I. Nor did Evan S. Connell. And, truthfully, we can’t know. However, I don’t read this as a pessimistic book. The myths, the lies, the self-aggrandisement (not just Custer’s), and the uncertainty are the story. And Connell’s method of relating them to us is precisely what is needed.

Connell’s book is often described as a masterpiece. It means nothing for me to add my voice to the crowds of people acclaiming his work. On a personal level, though, reading this book was mind-expanding. It helped me see what history could be. ( )
  crow-onion | Apr 15, 2022 |
What a slog. Incredibly researched and some memorable parts but the print size in my edition was small and it felt like a long high school assignment. ( )
  shaundeane | Sep 13, 2020 |
My book group is reading Mrs. Bridge which is just an amazing perfect little book. and while I am re-reading it for the group I am also casting eyes on my favorite book of all time, Evan S. Connells Son of the Morning Star.

This is the book that takes the deepest dive imaginable into the Custer Battle, the Battle of Little Big Horn, where 300 plus US Calvary faced off against perhaps 3000 plus hostile Indians.

It's an important moment in American History so for that alone its a lovely little book.

But it's also a quiet little meditation on America at the turn of the Century, frontier washerwomen, hard scrabble "journalists", Indians, dogs, horses and just about everything else too.

Connell takes each chapter and seizes on a thread - Custer, or Mrs. Custer, or Reno, or Benteen, or Sitting Bull. and then tells you everything you wanted to know about them and how they relate to the big event. You might think this is uninteresting. Actually its deeply fascinating and engaging.

If you want to know if Sitting Bull ever went to West Point (he didn't) or if Custer took an Indian woman as his "forest wife" (he did) this is the book for you.

"Son of the Morning Star" was the name that the Indians gave to Custer. Curiously it's also one of the names given to Sitting Bull.

Just lovely wonderful elegant writing about people and history and America. How we got from there to here.

My favorite book ever. Not kidding. ( )
  magicians_nephew | Jan 2, 2019 |
We will never know - greatly enjoyed this attempt. An older type of narrative history, not sure anyone would attempt to write it today. ( )
  kcshankd | Sep 26, 2018 |
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Custer's Last Stand is among the most enduring events in American history--more than one hundred years after the fact, books continue to be written and people continue to argue about even the most basic details surrounding the Little Bighorn. Evan S. Connell, whom Joyce Carol Oates has described as "one of our most interesting and intelligent American writers," wrote what continues to be the most reliable--and compulsively readable--account of the subject. Connell makes good use of his meticulous research and novelist's eye for the story and detail to re-vreate the heroism, foolishness, and savagery of this crucial chapter in the history of the West.

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