The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire - Couverture souple

Dixon Jr. Jr, Thomas

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1565549805 ISBN 13 : 9781565549807

Editeur : Pelican Publishing Co, 2001

Synopsis

To the brave and the proud there are visions darker than death."" Trapped between feuding Klan members and carpetbaggers who are out to destroy his life, Southern aristocrat John Graham must fight to keep the honor of his family and his nation. Third in ""The Trilogy of Reconstruction,"" The Traitor showcases the fall of the Ku Klux Klan, beginning with Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrests order to dissolve the Klan. It takes place in the foothills of North Carolina, set in an atmosphere of fierce neighborhood feuds that historically marked the Klans downfall in the Piedmont region of the South.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Thomas Dixon Jr. was born on November 11, 1864, in rural North Carolina during the Civil War. Educated at Wake Forest and Johns Hopkins Universities, Mr. Dixon was, among other things, a novelist, preacher, lecturer, lawyer, and state legislator. During his lifetime, he published twenty-two novels and several essays, plays, and sermons. He has been named among both the most dated and most contemporary Southern writers. Mr. Dixon's Trilogy of Reconstruction, which included the novels The Clansman, The Traitor, and The Leopard's Spots, was made into D. W. Griffith's cinema masterpiece, Birth of a Nation . The movie was praised for its artistry and vilified for its subject matter even in its own day: romancing the activity of the Ku Klux Klan during Reconstruction. In the preface to his book, The Clansman, Mr. Dixon claims to have sought to preserve . . . both the letter and spirit of this remarkable period when the young South, led by the reincarnated souls of the Clansmen of Old Scotland, went forth under this cover as an Invisible Empire into one of the most dramatic chapters in history. Famous as a lecturer in his time, Mr. Dixon was considered a creator of attitudes, an interpreter of Southern history, and a reflector of the biases of his age. His novels and the movie made from them influenced American thought and contributed to the development of the climate of race relations in the twentieth century.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Pelican Publishing Co
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1565549805
• ISBN 13: 9781565549807
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 352
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible