While the novel's portrayal of race relations may be challenging and contentious, it offers valuable insights into the cultural and political conflicts that shaped the nation during this pivotal period of its history.

Two brothers, Phil and Ted Stoneman, visit their friends, the Cameron family in Piedmont, South Carolina.This friendship is affected by the Civil War, as the Stonemans and the Camerons must join up opposite armies.

The most famous novel of the "Reconstruction Trilogy," based on the events in the US South following the end of the Civil War, "The Clansman" became the basis for the 1915 epic movie "Birth of a Nation.

The One Woman: A Story of Modern Utopia is a 1903 novel by Thomas Dixon, Jr.. Reverend Joseph Gordon, a preacher in New York City, clashes with church elders because of his socialist views.

This book is an important contribution to the debate about emotion and rationality which has preoccupied western thinkers throughout the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries and has implications for contemporary debates.

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"The Clansman probes the roots of the racial violence that still haunts our society." ― The Lone Star Book Review The year was 1865.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.