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THE DEATH OF A MASTER
Over time I glimpsed his power, his precise timing—how he could face a lunging assault by his fastest student and, with only a slight tap of the sole of his foot against the attacker’s ankle, send him sprawling on the ground—yet I never thought, This is why I’m here. A high school music teacher with a second-degree black belt from the JKA taught karate twice a week in the gym at 6:30 in the morning. In my senior year I earned my shodan, or first-degree black belt. The goal, he wrote, was to perfect one’s character. [...]he called his art karate-do—“do” meaning “way”—implying a spiritual as well as physical discipline.
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Custer's trials : a life on the frontier of a new America
Historian T.J. Stiles paints a portrait of Custer both deeply personal and sweeping in scope, demonstrating how much of Custer's legacy has been ignored. He refutes Custer's historical caricature, revealing a volatile, contradictory, intense person -- capable yet insecure, intelligent yet bigoted, passionate yet self-destructive, a romantic individualist at odds with the institution of the military (he was court-martialed twice in six years). The key to understanding Custer, Stiles writes, is keeping in mind that he lived on a frontier in time. During Custer's lifetime, Americans saw their world remade. In the Civil War, the West, and many areas overlooked in previous biographies, Custer helped to create modern America, but he could never adapt to it. His admirers saw him as the embodiment of the nation's gallant youth, of all that they were losing; his detractors despised him for resisting a more complex and promising future. He freed countless slaves, yet rejected new civil rights laws. He proved his heroism, but missed the dark reality of war for so many others. Native Americans fascinated him, but he could not see them as fully human. Intimate, dramatic, and provocative, this biography captures the larger story of the changing nation in Custer's tumultuous marriage to his highly educated wife, Libbie; their complicated relationship with Eliza Brown, the forceful black woman who ran their household; as well as his battles and expeditions. It casts new light on a near-mythic American figure, a man both widely known and little understood.
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Buffalo Soldiers
African American soldiers--nicknamed \"buffalo soldiers\" by Native Americans--played a crucial role in the western expansion of the United States. \"Despite a recent wave of interest in the professional African-American soldiers of the 19th century, many writers have treated them as a footnote to the history of the frontier. In fact...over the course of three decades on the frontier, the buffalo soldiers emerged as the most professional, experienced and effective troops in the service.\" (SMITHSONIAN)
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