The Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
Gelesen von Michele Fry
Thomas Dixon, Jr.
(4,371 Sterne; 31 Bewertungen)
The second book in a trilogy of the Reconstruction era - The Leopard's Spots (1902), The Clansman (1905), and The Traitor (1907), this novel was the basis for the 1915 silent movie classic, "The Birth Of A Nation". Within a fictional story, it records Dixon's understanding of the origins of the first Ku Klux Klan (his uncle was a Grand Titan during Dixon's childhood), recounting why white southerners' began staging vigilante responses to the savage personal insults, political injustices and social cruelties heaped upon them during Reconstruction. Still considered dangerous "propaganda" encouraging segregation, white unity, and white supremacy, this incendiary novel nevertheless sheds light on the social conditions and the mindset of many Americans (North and South) during that period, and its influence on subsequent southern authors from Margaret Mitchell (Gone With The Wind) to Faulkner, Allen Tate, Robert Penn, and others, was significant. (Michele Fry) (9 hr 28 min)
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Best of the three
TLast
(4 Sterne)
Realize from what perspective this is written and enjoy it for what it is. Well read.
Peter
(5 Sterne)
Congratulations again (following the first volume of the trilogy) to Ms. Fry for a performance that captures Dixon’s intent and leaves no melodrama understated. And again zero stars for this novel’s message of bigotry and propaganda, to be read as history for its outlandish caricature of Thaddeus Stevens and frightening glorification of racial inequality.
stolen elections, confiscation, corrupt politicans...
Stephen Lowe
(5 Sterne)
division of America...oh my....seems like yesterday in many respects. well read saga. historical fiction or current events?
not Raycyst enough
Bill Cosby
(4,5 Sterne)
As an old white male, I am by definition a Raycyst Bigot. I have the crazy raycyst idea that black and white folks can live together in harmony. This view is now known to be problematic. The correct view is that blacks must be separated from whites so they will not be oppressed by evil white folks. I expected this book to reinforce my raycyst views. I am extremely disapointed in the fact this book is an anti-raycyst diatribe. The book calls for the separation of the races, which is an extremely progressive and enlightened view of racial justice. It is pretty much what the liberal ivy league schools are calling for. Who would have thought this book on the founding of the clan would have so much in common with contemporary enlightened views on diversity and inclusion.
Good though biased story, bad narration.
Great book, great narrator. Loved every page.
(3 Sterne)
With apologies to the lady's feelings, the narrator's voice grinds & grates throughout, to the great detriment of the story. Frequent mispronunciations of words such as "indict" & "indicted' which she calls indicked & indickted, confuse the listener and approach comedy. Were it not for the competent, although melodramatic writing, I would have given up long before the end.