A powerful new novel about Nathan Bedford Forrest, the most reviled, celebrated, and legendary of Civil War generals. With the same eloquence, dramatic energy, and grasp of history that marked his award-winning fictional trilogy of the Haitian Revolution, Madison Smartt Bell now turns his gaze to America’s Civil War. We see Forrest on and off the battlefield, in less familiar but no less revealing moments of his life; we see him treating his slaves humanely even as he fights to ensure their continued enslavement; we see his knack for keeping his enemy unsettled, his instinct for the unexpected, and his relentless stamina. As Devil's Dream moves back and forth in time, a vivid portrait comes into focus: a rough, fierce man with a life full of contradictions.
- ISBN10 0375424881
- ISBN13 9780375424885
- Publish Date 18 November 2009 (first published 3 November 2009)
- Publish Status Remaindered
- Out of Print 8 October 2015
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Pantheon Books
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 335
- Language English