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This interview will be on “St. Louis on the Air” over the noon hour Tuesday. This story will be updated after the show. You can listen live.
To modern-day Northerners, Nathan Bedford Forrest might be best known as the namesake for Forrest Gump. But for Southerners, the former Confederate general and first grand wizard of the Ku Klux Klan is a near-mythic figure, both a “manly man, fearless and true” (in the words of one historian) and a symbol of the South’s refusal to heel, even 150 years after Appomattox.
Journalist Connor Towne O’Neill’s new book is not a biography of Forrest, though you’ll learn plenty about the Tennessee native’s dramatic, violent life while reading it. Instead, “Down Along With That Devil’s Bones” tells the story of Forrest’s afterlife, by exploring the battles raging over monuments to him in four places: Selma, Ala.; and the Tennessee cities of Murfreesboro, Nashville and Memphis.
O’Neill joins Tuesday’s St. Louis on the Air to discuss his book. The conversation previews his Facebook live event at the St. Louis County Library on Oct. 29.
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What: Conor Towne O’Neill Virtual Event with St. Louis County Library
When: 7 p.m., October 29, 2020
Where: Facebook.com/hectv
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