A Rebel Born

Lochlainn Seabrook's powerful and transformative screenplay A Rebel Born follows Southern icon Nathan Bedford Forrest from young adulthood through the closing years of his extraordinary, action-packed life. Both entertaining and historically grounded, this sweeping Southern drama offers readers a rare opportunity to view the War for Southern Independence-known in the North as the American Civil War-from the perspective of the conservative South and, on a more personal level, through the eyes of a patriotic American, celebrated Tennessean, and brilliant Confederate general.As the story unfolds, the screenwriter-a Forrest scholar-challenges many of the long-standing claims and misconceptions surrounding both "Old Bedford" and the War. Written for general audiences and based on Seabrook's award-winning Forrest biography of the same name, A Rebel Born has been hailed as one of the most honest, factual, and provocative screenplays ever written about the War Between the States.Neo-Victorian historian Lochlainn Seabrook, whose literary works range from astronomy to zoology, is one of today's most prolific American authors. Known by literary critics as the "new Shelby Foote" and the "American Robert Graves," he is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, a Kentucky Colonel, a recipient of the prestigious Jefferson Davis Historical Gold Medal, and the author and editor of over 130 nonfiction books.Described by readers as "game-changing" and "life-altering," Seabrook's extensive body of work has introduced hundreds of thousands of people to important facts and perspectives frequently omitted from mainstream histories. A seventh-generation Kentuckian of Appalachian heritage and a sixth-great-grandson of the Earl of Oxford, Colonel Seabrook has more than 45 years of experience in American and Southern history. He is also the author of the international bestseller Everything You Were Taught About the Civil War Is Wrong, Ask a Southerner!