Story told of contradictory Civil War general
November 6, 2009 | Posted by javal “Devil’s Dream” (Pantheon Books, 335 pages, $26), by Madison Smartt Bell: In “Devil’s Dream,” Madison Smartt Bell has chosen as his subject a Confederate general and slave trader who would go on to become one of the leaders of the early Ku Klux Klan.
By breaking up the story’s chronological order and injecting it with a dash of magical realism, Bell creates a multifaceted, largely sympathetic portrait of Nathan Bedford Forrest — one of the Civil War’s most distinguished and reviled generals.
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