Traitor
Author: first_name: Thomas
last_name: Dixon, Jr.
Language: English
Year: 1907

Dixon lived through Reconstruction, and believed it ranked with the French Revolution in brutality and criminal acts. The Traitor (1907), the final book in his trilogy which also includes <u>The Leopard’s Spots</u> (1902), and <u>The Clansman</u> (1905), spans a two-year period just after Reconstruction (1870-1872), and covers the decline of the Ku Klux Klan in North Carolina. Dixon, whose father was an early Klan leader, maintained that the original Klan, the “reconstruction Klan” was morally f