The name Nathan Bedford Forrest stirs conflicting emotions among those acquainted with his history. Here he is presented as a man of many passions and abilities, a man who, faced with financial ruin at the end of the Civil War and the destruction of the world he had known, could adapt and embrace new visions. Dispelling several myths surrounding the historical figure, this book is a study of the complete Forrest and examines his life during Reconstruction and his famous organization of the Ku Klux Klan.
Daniel Foxx is a professor emeritus of history at Ottawa University in Phoenix and has taught at East Carolina University and Glendale Community College. Foxx is the co-author of Nathan Bedford Forrest: In Search of the Enigma, published by Pelican. The biography received the 2008 Arizona Book Award and was a finalist for the 2008 PMA Benjamin Franklin Award. Raised in South Carolina, he and his wife live in Arizona.
Eddy W. Davison teaches criminal justice at the International Institute of the Americas in Phoenix. He is also an adjunct professor of history at Ottawa University and a member of the board of directors of the Scottsdale Civil War Roundtable, and he writes and presents seminars on Civil War topics.