{"product_id":"american-trinity-jefferson-custer-and-the-spirit-of-the-west-9781591521884","title":"American Trinity: Jefferson  Custer  and the Spirit of the West","description":"\u003cp\u003e2018 Will Rogers Gold Medallion Award Winner: First Place Nonfiction! 2018 True West Magazine Best of the West Winner: Best Author and Best Nonfiction Book of the Year! University of Nebraska Great Plains Book of the Month: December 2018! American Trinity is for everyone who loves the American West and wants to learn more about the good  the bad  and the ugly. It is a sprawling story with a scholarly approach in method but remains 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 strange 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 always only obliquely about them. They were victims but not the cause. The Indian was a symbol  not a real person. The politics of hate and racism directed toward them was 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 always sought vindication from the highest sources of authority in their cultures. In the Middle Ages it was religion supplemented later by the philosophy of the Enlightenment. In nineteenth-century Europe and America  religion and philosophy were joined by science and medicine to support 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 latest observations that delineate why the Native Americans life was destroyed. American Trinity is a stunning portrait  a view at once unique  panoramic  and intimate. It is a fascinating book that will make you think about 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.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45647245312053,"sku":"ByrdShop_1591521882","price":29.26,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9781591521884.jpg?v=1781690589","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/american-trinity-jefferson-custer-and-the-spirit-of-the-west-9781591521884","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}