Son of the morning star: Custer and the Little Bighorn. (George Armstrong Custer)

From: National Review | Date: August 9, 1985| Author: Tate, J.O. | Copyright information

TURNING A NOVELIST loose on Custer's Last Stand isn't a bad idea; and in fact Mr. Connell has cited Custoer in the best known of his novels. In Mrs. Bridge (1959), that bilious account of the misery of middle-class existence in Kansas City, the character Grace Barron mentions "Custer's deliberate violation of the treaty of 1868" in an outburst that anticipates her suicide. In Mr. Bridge (1969), another bilious account of the misery of middle-class existence in Kansas City, we fin...

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