The Birth of a Nation
Subtitle: how a legendary filmmaker and a crusading editor reignited America's Civil War
By: Dick Lehr
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: PublicAffairs, a member of the Perseus Books Group
Published: 2014
Language: eng
Number of pages: 343
ISBN-13: 9781586489878
Subjects: Motion pictures and the war; Race relations; Birth of a nation (Motion picture); History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Prologue: Jan 2, 1915; title: Part I. Fathers and sons; title: The legacy; title: Fathers and sons: the Trotters; title: Fathers and sons: the Griffiths; title: The awakening: 1896-1903; title: Character work: 1896-1907; title: Part II. Finding their voices; title: Trotterism: 1903-1908; title: The apprenticeship: 1908-1913; title: Fame rising, falling, circa 1913; title: Part II. A Birth of a Nation; title: 1914; title: The Wilson White House; title: Trotter rides the rails; title: Part IV. 1915; title: Curley's our man, or not?; title: Bringing down the house; title: "We'll hang Tom Dixon"; title: Part V. Victory & defeat; title: Victory at hand; title: The curtain falls; title: Epilogue.