Devil’s Dream: A Novel About Nathan Bedford Forrest by Madison Smartt Bell, Pantheon, 2010, $26.95 Why would Madison Smartt Bell, the author of three novels chronicling the servile revolution in Haiti and the biographer of the revolt’s enigmatic leader, choose to write a meandering, fictionalized life of one of the South’s preeminent slave traders—and perhaps …
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