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, exploring the controversial ideas of race and white supremacy in modern society.
- ISBN10 0813191297
- ISBN13 9780813191294
- Publish Date 20 May 2005 (first published 1 January 2005)
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 13 August 2021
- Publish Country US
- Imprint The University Press of Kentucky
- Format Paperback
- Pages 488
- Language English