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“The Lord, in His own good time, had at last rounded the scoundrels up”

Speaking of obsessions, a new factotum about Custer’s death that I was unaware of. From Slate: “More than anything else, he wanted to be remembered.” That’s how Nathaniel (“Mayflower”) Philbrick sizes up George Armstrong Custer toward the end of “The Last … Continue reading

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