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- The Flaming Sword
- Book
- 2005
- Published by: The University Press of Kentucky
summary
" Thomas Dixon is perhaps best known as the author of the best-selling early twentieth-century Klan trilogy that included the novel The Clansman (1905), which provided the core narrative for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and still controversial film The Birth of a Nation (1915). In his twenty-eighth and last novel, The Flaming Sword (1939), Dixon takes to task his long-standing black critics, especially W.E.B. DuBois, by attacking what he considered to be a vast conspiracy by blacks and Communists to destroy America. A new introduction and detailed notes by John David Smith offer a valuable historical and critical perspective on this important and divisive classic of American literature. Thomas Dixon (1864-1946) was born in Shelby, North Carolina. He is the author of The Clansman and The Sins of the Father.
Table of Contents
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- Introduction
- pp. xv-xxix
- A Note on the Text
- p. xxxi
- Part I. The Crime
- pp. 1-149
- Part II. The Search
- pp. 151-310
- Part III. The Solution
- pp. 311-453
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813172118
Related ISBN(s)
9780813191294
MARC Record
OCLC
67764542
Pages
488
Launched on MUSE
2012-01-01
Language
English
Open Access
No