title: The Reconstruction Trilogy: The Leopard's Spots; The Clansman; The Traitor
author: Thomas Dixon
description: Three of Dixon's novels on the South after the Civil War, all in one volume.
  " The year was 1865. With the close of the Civil War, there began for the South, an era of even greater turmoil. In The Clansman, his controversial 1905 novel, later the basis of the motion picture The Birth of a Nation, Thomas Dixon, describes the social, political, and economic disintegration that plagued the South during Reconstruction, depicting the rise of the Ku Klux Klan and the reactions of two families to racial conflict. This study in social history was alternatively praised and damned by contemporary critics. As historian Thomas D. Clark notes in his introduction, the novel "opened wider a vein of racial hatred which was to poison further an age already in social and political upheaval. Dixon had in fact given voice in his novel to one of the most powerful latent forces in the social and political mind of the South." For modern readers, The Clansman probes the roots of the racial violence that still haunts our society.
  Thomas F. Dixon, Jr. (1864-1946) was an American Baptist minister, playwright, lecturer, North Carolina state legislator, lawyer, and author, perhaps best known for writing The Clansman (1905), which was to become the inspiration for D. W. Griffith's film, The Birth of a Nation (1915). Although currently his life and works are discredited by his racism, he was among the most popular speakers and writers of his day. His brother, the popular preacher Amzi Clarence Dixon, was also famous for helping to edit The Fundamentals, a series of articles influential in fundamentalist Christianity. He was the author of 22 novels; additionally, he wrote many plays, sermons, and works of nonfiction. Most of his work centered around three major themes constant throughout his writings: the need for racial purity, the evils of socialism, and the necessity of a stable family with a traditional role for the wife/mother.
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  The Trade
  The Clans
  Book Two
  
   
  AVAILABLE NOW FROM
  E LI ZABET H K N O X
  Reign
  (Skulls Renegade #1)
  Promised
  (The Clans #1)
  Redemption
  (Skulls Renegade #2)
  Tough as Steele
  (Steele Bros #1)
  Blackjack
  (Reapers MC #1)
  Revenge
  (Skulls Renegade #3)
  Stripping a Steele
  (Steele Bros #2)
  Relentless
  (Skulls Renegade #4)
  
  COMING SOON FROM
  E LI ZABET H K N O X
  Reckoning
  (Skulls Renegade #5)
  Scarred
  (Demons of Hell MC #1)
  God of Hotness
  (Purgatory #1)
  Here Kitty, Kitty
  (Demons of Hell MC #2/Reapers MC #2)
  Forbidden Love
  (The Mackenzies #1)
  Protecting a Steele
  (Steele Bros. #3)
  Steeleing her Heart
  (Steele Bros #4)
  Booger
  (Reapers MC #3)
  Cherished
  (The Clans #3)
  Deceit
  (The Clans #4)
  Reclaimed
  (Skulls Renegade #6)
  
  THE TRADE
  This work is a book of fiction. The names, characters, places, and incidents are all products of the author's imagination and are not to
  be construed as real. Any resemblances to persons, organizations, events, or locales are entirely coincidental.
  The Trade. Copyright © 201