American Trinity: Jefferson, Custer, and the Spirit of the West

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Named the Best Nonfiction Book of 2017 by True West magazine!

American Trinity is for everyone who loves the American West and wants to learn more about the good, the bad, and the ugly. This can be a sprawling story with a scholarly approach in method but accessible in manner. In this innovative examination, Dr. Larry Len Peterson explores the origins, development, and consequences of hatred and racism from the time modern humans left Africa 100,000 years ago to the forced placement of Indian children on off-reservation schools far from home in the late 1800s. Along the way, dozens of notable individuals and cultures are profiled. Many historical events turned on the lives of legendary Americans like the “Father of the West” Thomas Jefferson, and the “Son of the West” George Armstrong Custer – two ordinary companions who shared an unshakable sense of their own skills – as their interpretation of truths motivated them in the winning of the West.

Dr. Peterson reveals how anti-Indian sentiments were at all times only obliquely about them. They were sufferers but not the cause. The Indian used to be a symbol, not a real person. The politics of hate and racism directed toward them used to be also experienced in prior centuries by Jews, enslaved Africans, and other Christians.

Hatred and racism, when taken into the public domain, are singularly difficult to justify, which is why Europeans and Americans have at all times sought vindication from the highest sources of authority in their cultures. In the Middle Ages it used to be religion supplemented later by the philosophy of the Enlightenment. In nineteenth-century Europe and The united states, religion and philosophy were joined by science and medicine to make stronger Manifest Destiny, scientific racism, and social Darwinism, all of which had profound consequences on Native Americans and the Spirit of the West.

Presenting research in anthropology, archaeology, biology, history, law, medicine, religion, philosophy, and psychology, Dr. Peterson provides the recent observations that delineate why the Native American’s life used to be destroyed. American Trinity is a stunning portrait, a view at once unique, panoramic, and intimate. This can be a fascinating book so they can make you consider the differences between belief and knowledge; about the self-skepticism of science and medicine; and about what aspects of the world we take on faith.

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