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BL
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1047301
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b801671
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| Main Entry
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Dixon, Thomas,Jr.,1864-1946.
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| Title & Author
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The flaming sword /\ by Thomas Dixon ; with an introduction and notes by John David Smith.
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| Publication Statement
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Lexington :: University Press of Kentucky,, ©2005.
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1 online resource (xxix, 453 pages) :: illustrations
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| ISBN
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0813137861
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: 081317211X
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: 6613860387
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: 9780813137865
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: 9780813172118
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: 9786613860385
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0813191297
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1283547937
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9780813191294
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9781283547932
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (page xxvii, xxix).
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| Contents
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pt. 1. The crime -- pt. 2. The search -- pt. 3. The solution.
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| Abstract
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"Thomas Dixon is perhaps best known as the author of the best-selling early twentieth-century Klan trilogy that included the novel The Clansman (1905), which provided the core narrative for D.W. Griffith's groundbreaking and still controversial film The Birth of a Nation (1915). In his twenty-eighth and last novel, The Flaming Sword (1939), Dixon takes to task his long-standing black critics, especially W.E.B. DuBois, by attacking what he considered to be a vast conspiracy by blacks and Communists to destroy America. A new introduction and detailed notes by John David Smith offer a valuable h.
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African American criminals, Fiction.
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Anti-communist movements, Fiction.
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Back to Africa movement, Fiction.
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Lynching, Fiction.
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Murder victims' families, Fiction.
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Racism, Fiction.
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White supremacy movements, Fiction.
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African American criminals.
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Anti-communist movements.
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Back to Africa movement.
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FICTION-- Historical.
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Lynching.
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Murder victims' families.
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Racism.
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White supremacy movements.
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New York (N.Y.), Fiction.
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South Carolina, Fiction.
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New York (State), New York.
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South Carolina.
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| Dewey Classification
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813/.52
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| LC Classification
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PS3507.I93F57 2005eb
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| Added Entry
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Smith, John David,1949-
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