Thomas
Dixon
herein
has
written
a novel
that
will
delight
all
those
who feel
the
potent
spell of
historical
romance
that is
vital
and
hot-blooded.
Mr.
Dixon
knows
the days
of the
Civil
War and
Reconstruction
Periods
as few
do and
in
"The
Black
Hood"
he tells
an
exciting
story
that is
closely
related
to the
drama of
those
tense,
difficult
days.
"The
Black
Hood"
is the
story of
John
Craig,
who
clearly
sees
that a
new day
must
dawn,
back
there in
the
'seventies,
when the
nation
was yet
staggering
beneath
the
effects
of the
war.
Into his
fight
against
elements
which
seek to
terrorize
the
nation
comes a
dramatic
complication
with his
love for
Claudia
Hall,
daughter
of his
chief
enemy,
Judge
Hall.
$18.00
Dustjacket
Only
Clansman,
The
[Birth
of a
Nation] -
PhotoPlay
Edition
1915
Epoch
Silent
Film --
starring
Lillian
Gish,
Henry B.
Walthall
[From
the
Front
Flap]
A novel
with a
great
deal to
it, and
which
very
properly
is going
to
interest
many
thousands
of
readers.
In his
pictures
of the
fearful
condition
of a
certain
part of
the
South
during
the
Reconstruction
period,
under
the
domination
of
negroes
and
carpet-baggers,
Mr.
Dixon
has
undoubtedly
written
with
great
sincerity,
candor,
even
self-restraint.
It is a
big
subject
to him,
something
very
near to
his
heart,
and
through
it all
there is
the ring
of truth
and
honesty
and
hot-eyed
indignation.
[From
the
Front
Flap]
The
Clansman
would
serve as
the
script
for one
of the
epic
silent
films of
Hollywood
-- The
Birth of
a
Nation.
In the
Klan
trilogy
- The
Leopard's
Spots
(1902),
The
Clansman
(1905),
The
Traitor
(1907) -
and in
The Sins
of the
Fathers
(1912),
Dixon
presents
racial
conflict
as an
epic
struggle,
with the
future
of
civilization
at
stake.
Although
Dixon
personally
condemned
slavery
and Klan
activities
after
Reconstruction
ended,
he
argued
that
blacks
must be
denied
political
equality
because
that
leads to
social
equality
and
miscegenation,
thus to
the
destruction
of both
family
and
civilized
society.
[From
UNC
Chapel
Hill -
Documenting
the
American
South]
