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If you don't like history you should turn to the sports page right now. That's because I'm going to stop being silly for a moment to bore you with a discussion about a couple of guys from America's past that I think have been treated a lot worse than they deserve. The first whipping boy is Lieutenant Colonel George Armstrong Custer, who graduated at the very bottom of his West Point class, became a Civil War hero and years later, in 1876, led his horse soldiers to disaster along a ridge in Montana. That fiasco makes Custer a vainglorious idiot, right? That's been the popular view ever since Custer's adoring widow died in 1933 and couldn't defend him anymore. It's a fact that Custer wasn't the sharpest knife in the drawer, as the current saying goes, but in my opinion he was anything but the buffoon that history writers have portrayed over the last 75 years. During the Civil War his performance was so outstanding that he became the youngest general in the Union army, although...
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