The Clansman

While ConfederateShop.com has always maintained a firm policy of not selling fiction, we have decided to finally stock this historic and highly influential novel. The Clansman is now a significant his…

While ConfederateShop.com has always maintained a firm policy of not selling fiction, we have decided to finally stock this historic and highly influential novel. The Clansman is now a significant historical source. This is the book most guaranteed to make Yankee Heads Explode!

Here is Thomas Dixon's famous masterpiece of fiction. A gripping tale of Reconstruction in the South, the story is moved along from beginning to end on the wings of a double romance between two young couples who find themselves caught in the middle of brutal carpetbag rule in South Carolina.

Rolling off the press in 1905, The Clansman was an overnight success. So popular was the novel that Hollywood's leading producer, D.W. Griffith, turned the story into a movie in 1915. The Birth of a Nation became the most successful silent film ever produced, playing to millions of people in its first year alone.

Although Dixon's characters are fictitious, many of them are based upon real historical figures with most of the book's events based upon real occurrences. Southern readers may be a bit perplexed at Dixon's sympathetic portrayal of Lincoln, the man who unleashed war upon the men, women and children of the South. Inexplicable is the author's fixation upon the person of Lincoln, but at the same time his revulsion at the harsh Reconstruction measures of the post-war Republican Congress reflect a decidedly Southern viewpoint.

One thing is sure: Nothing succeeds like success, and the reading of Dixon's Clansman is evidence of its wide appeal.