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" 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.

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  1. Cover
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  1. Title Page, Copyright
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  1. Introduction
  2. pp. v-xviii
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  1. To the Reader
  2. pp. 1-2
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  1. Book 1. The Assassination
  1. 1. The Bruised Reed
  2. pp. 3-18
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  1. 2. The Great Heart
  2. pp. 19-32
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  1. 3. The Man of War
  2. pp. 33-37
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  1. 4. A Clash of Giants
  2. pp. 38-55
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  1. 5. The Battle of Love
  2. pp. 56-60
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  1. 6. The Assassination
  2. pp. 61-79
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  1. 7. The Frenzy of a Nation
  2. pp. 80-89
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  1. Book 2. The Revolution
  1. 1. The First Lady of the Land
  2. pp. 90-100
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  1. 2. Sweethearts
  2. pp. 101-111
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  1. 3. The Joy of Living
  2. pp. 112-114
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  1. 4. Hidden Treasure
  2. pp. 115-119
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  1. 5. Across the Chasm
  2. pp. 120-130
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  1. 6. The Gauge of Battle
  2. pp. 131-135
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  1. 7. A Woman Laughs
  2. pp. 136-147
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  1. 8. A Dream
  2. pp. 148-151
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  1. 9. The King Amuses Himself
  2. pp. 152-161
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  1. 10. Tossed by the Storm
  2. pp. 162-164
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  1. 11. The Supreme Test
  2. pp. 165-178
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  1. 12. Triumph in Defeat
  2. pp. 179-186
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  1. Book 3. Reign of Terror
  1. 1. A Fallen Slaveholder's Mansion
  2. pp. 187-203
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  1. 2. The Eyes of the Jungle
  2. pp. 204-208
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  1. 3. Augustus Caesar
  2. pp. 209-217
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  1. 4. At the Point of the Bayonet
  2. pp. 218-234
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  1. 5. Forty Acres and a Mule
  2. pp. 235-243
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  1. 6. A Whisper in the Crowd
  2. pp. 244-253
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  1. 7. By the Light of a Torch
  2. pp. 254-262
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  1. 8. The Riot in the Master's Hall
  2. pp. 263-275
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  1. 9. At Lover's Leap
  2. pp. 276-283
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  1. 10. A Night Hawk
  2. pp. 284-296
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  1. 11. The Beat of a Sparrow's Wing
  2. pp. 297-304
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  1. 12. At the Dawn of Day
  2. pp. 305-308
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  1. Book 4. The Ku Klux Klan
  1. 1. The Hunt for the Animal
  2. pp. 309-317
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  1. 2. The Fiery Cross
  2. pp. 318-326
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  1. 3. The Parting of the Ways
  2. pp. 327-336
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  1. 4. The Banner of the Dragon
  2. pp. 337-340
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  1. 5. The Reign of the Klan
  2. pp. 341-350
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  1. 6. The Counter Stroke
  2. pp. 351-357
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  1. 7. The Snare of the Fowler
  2. pp. 358-361
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  1. 8. A Ride for a Life
  2. pp. 362-368
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  1. 9. "Vengeance is Mine"
  2. pp. 369-376
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