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The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan is a novel published in 1905. It was the second work in the Ku Klux Klan trilogy by Thomas F. Dixon, Jr. that included The Leopard's Spots and The Traitor. It was influential in providing the ideology that helped support the revival of the Ku Klux Klan (KKK). The novel was immediately adapted by its author as a play entitled The Clansman (1905) and by D. W. Griffith as the groundbreaking 1915 silent movie The Birth of a Nation. The play particularly inspired the second half of The Birth of a Nation, as it was concerned with the KKK and…

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5 editions
  • Paperback · English · 2013
    CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform · 314 pages · 9781494757069
  • Paperback · English · 2000
    M.E. Sharpe · 186 pages · 9780765606174
  • Other · English · 2001
    M.E. Sharpe · 186 pages · 9780765606167
  • Other · English · 1975
    Gordon Press · 374 pages · 9780879681944
  • Other · English · 1970
    University Press of Kentucky · 374 pages · 9780813101262
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