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Years before a hero appears on the big screen at a star-infested movie premiere, a writer sat down alone and started to write. This writer labored for months or years, creating the characters, tweaking the dialogue, researching the setting, lining up an agent—all in anticipation of the moment when the screenplay is sold and the writer is left behind, usually without any creative say over how the movie is changed and the script is rewritten. By the time the film premieres, the writer is usually forgotten—the anonymity of writers at the Academy Awards...
...with the same twisted vines and story lines running through it. The last person I spoke to in Mississippi, ex-Governor William Forrest Winter, told me about sitting on his granddaddy's knee as a boy and hearing stories about how the old man fought under the fearless Confederate hero Nathan Bedford Forrest, whose last name became Winter's middle name. This same hero, however, was accused of slaughtering black Union soldiers who surrendered in a battle at Fort Pillow, Tenn. He went on to become the first Imperial Wizard of the K.K.K. Winter, now 79, began his political career...
...honoring "all Virginians who served in the Civil War," the Sons of Confederate Veterans condemned him for "honoring people who...murdered, raped and pillaged." In Selma, Ala., a battleground in the 1960s civil rights movement, whites are militant in defense of a new statue of Confederate hero Nathan Bedford Forrest, even though he was the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan...
...watch a car pull up and follow a young man who goes to have a look at Forrest. "They want this statue moved because he started the K.K.K. That's the only reason," William Greene, 22, a white, unemployed local guy says indignantly. "To me he's a hero who represents what we're about. The K.K.K.--you could take it as you want. There's n______ that are black and white and other groups...The Klan is against scum of all types...
...flip open the second-quarter 2000 issue, with slave shackles on the cover and the headline DID SLAVERY CAUSE THE WAR BETWEEN THE STATES? The magazine fell open to a two-page ad for a book called The God of War. The book is about the same Civil War hero and Klan co-founder celebrated on the wall of the Confederate Presbyterian Church in Wiggins, Miss., the same man memorialized by that monument in Selma. The clip-out order form for the book said, "Yes, I want to ride with General Nathan Bedford Forrest!" It has been too long...