Devil's dream / Madison Smartt Bell.

Author/creator Bell, Madison Smartt
Format Book
Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Pantheon Books, ©2009.
Description335 pages ; 25 cm
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Abstract Nathan Bedford Forrest was the most reviled and celebrated, loathed and legendary, of Civil War generals. We see Forrest off the battlefield, in the more hidden but no less telling moments of his life: wooing the woman who would become his wife; battling an addiction to gambling; overcoming his abhorrence of the bureaucracy of the army to rise to its highest ranks. We see him taking part in the business of slave trading, but treating his own slaves humanely. We see him with his slave mistress, with whom he fathered several children, and we see him reveal his gift for inspiring courage but not change.
Genre/formBiographical fiction.
LCCN 2009009534
ISBN9780375424885
ISBN0375424881

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Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks PS3552.E517 D48 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold