Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography
Price
$17.47
Publisher
Blackstone Audiobooks
Publication Date
Unabridged edition (March 1, 2013
ISBN-13
978-1441713957
Dimensions
5.26 x 1.44 x 5.84 inches
Weight
12.8 ounces
Description
About the Author Jack Hurst is a historian and former journalist who has written for newspapers including the Chicago Tribune , Philadelphia Inquirer , and Nashville Tennessean . His books include Nathan Bedford Forrest: A Biography and Men of Fire . A native of Maryville, Tennessee, and a descendant of both Union and Confederate soldiers, he currently lives with his wife outside Nashville, Tennessee. Jeff Riggenbach has narrated numerous titles for Blackstone Audio and won an AudioFile Earphones Award. An author, contributing editor, and producer, he has worked in radio in San Francisco for the last thirty years, earning a Golden Mike Award for journalistic excellence.
Features & Highlights
- He was a fierce and controversial Civil War officer, an unschooled but brilliant cavalryman, an epic figure in America's most celebrated war. A superb tactician and ferocious fighter, Nathan Bedford Forrest revolutionized the way armies fought in the course of rising from private to lieutenant general in the Confederate Army. In this detailed and fascinating account of the legend of the "Wizard of the Saddle," we see a man whose strengths and flaws were both of towering proportions, a man possessed of physical valor perhaps unprecedented among his countrymen. And, ironically, Forrest--the first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan--was a man whose social attitudes may well have changed farther in the direction of racial enlightenment over the span of his lifetime than those of most American historical figures.
