Thomas Dixon was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, Baptist minister, lecturer, and novelist. This novel, an abridgement by Cary Wintz was originally published in 1905. It reflects turn-of-the-century attitudes most southerners had about Republican rule during Reconstruction.

Thomas Dixon, Jr., born during the Civil War, was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, Baptist minister, lecturer, and novelist. His novel The Clansman, originally published in 1905, reflects turn of the century attitudes most white southerners still had about Republica rule during Reconstruction. Although The Clansman clearly twisted the truth of many historical events, it is an accurate and faithful representation of a dominant attitude southerners - and northerners as well - had about those events. The novel was made into the classic D.W. Griffith film, The Birth of a Nation in 1915,...