Item #000012893 The Clansman; An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan. Thomas Dixon Jr.
The Clansman; An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

The Clansman; An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, 1905. First edition. Hardcover. 8vo. [16], 3-374, [2] (pages of publisher's advertisements), [2] pp. Red publisher's cloth with two white borders and white lettering on the front board, white lettering and a burning cross in white on the spine. Illustrated with a frontispiece and with seven plates by Arthur I. Keller. UNC Chapel Hill, Documenting the American South, "Thomas Dixon, 1864-1946". NCPedia, Christoper Meekins, "Dixon, Thomas Frederick, Jr.". This book was Dixon, Jr.'s most famous published work, the second part of a trilogy which promoted what historians call "The Lost Cause" or a romanticized version of the antebellum South and white supremacy. The basis for the film, Birth of a Nation. Both Dixon Jr.'s father and an uncle of his were members of the KKK. Riddled with anti-Lincoln, anti-Black, and racist propaganda, Dixon, Jr.'s work helped revive the KKK, an organization that was in decline before his writing. Dixon, Jr. spent his life working against equality for women and Black citizens of the United States. Very Good. Item #000012893

Light rubbing to the spine and minor foxing to a few leaves.

Price: $200.00

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