The Flaming Sword

by Thomas Dixon Jr. and John David Smith

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813191297
• ISBN13: 9780813191294
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 453 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 8.9"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher