“To the brave and the proud there are visions darker than death.”
Trapped between feuding Klan members and carpetbaggers who are out to destroy his life, Southern aristocrat John Graham must fight to keep the honor of his family and his nation.
Third in “The Trilogy of Reconstruction,” The Traitor showcases the fall of the Ku Klux Klan, beginning with Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest’s order to dissolve the Klan. It takes place in the foothills of North Carolina, set in an atmosphere of fierce neighborhood feuds that historically marked the Klan’s downfall in the Piedmont region of the South.
About the Author
Thomas Dixon, Jr., was born in rural North Carolina during the Civil War. Educated at Wake Forest and Johns Hopkins universities, Dixon was, among other things, a novelist, preacher, lecturer, lawyer, and state legislator. During his lifetime, he published twenty-two novels and several essays, plays, and sermons. Dixon’s “Trilogy of Reconstruction” also included The Leopard’s Spots and The Clansman, and was made into D.W. Griffith’s masterpiece, Birth of a Nation. He has been named among both the most dated and most contemporary of southern writers.
THE TRAITOR
By Thomas Dixon, Jr.
FICTION / Historical
331 pp. 5 x 8
8 illustrations
ISBN: 9781565549807 pb (F)