CTW #3: Rambo and Jack Crabb stand for Custer
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Author of the book"Little Big Man" speaks about the Custer controversy
RAMBO AND JACK CRABB TAKE A STAND
source: American Heritage Magazine
AMERICAN HERITAGE MAGAZINE: When Little Big Man was published, and perhaps more so when the movie version was released, some Custer buffs were outraged by Crabb’s depiction of their hero as a brutal, narcissistic egomaniac. (...)
THOMAS BERGER, author of Little Big Man: I have never been rebuked for the portrait of Custer in the Little Big Man novel, but I have heard there were some objections to the portrayal in the movie (one, if memory serves, by Sylvester Stallone), which (...)) is more extreme and a good deal more hostile than that of Jack Crabb, who in the book gives Custer some respect for his soldierly courage and dignity. (...)
