The Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide

The Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan, credited to Thomas Dixon, Jr., is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.

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LibriVox recording of The Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan by Thomas Dixon, Jr.. Read in English by Michele Fry 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)

Recording facts

• Recording title: The Clansman, An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan
• Author credits: Thomas Dixon, Jr.
• Language: English
• Original MP3 tracks: 41
• Listed recording duration: 9:28:23

Catalogue topics

• slavery
• civil war
• Abraham Lincoln
• racism
• reconstruction
• ku klux klan
• thadeus stevens
• universal suffrage

Opening tracks: first 24 of 41

1. 00 - Dedication and Introduction — 3:31
2. 01 - 1, 1 - The Bruised Reed — 26:16
3. 02 - 1, 2 - The Great Heart — 21:43
4. 03 - 1, 3 - The Man of War — 6:42
5. 04 - 1, 4 - A Clash of Giants — 31:09
6. 05 - 1, 5 - The Battle of Love — 8:03
7. 06 - 1, 6 - The Assassination — 30:04
8. 07 - 1, 7 - The Frenzy of a Nation — 16:40
9. 08 - 2, 1 - The First Lady of the Land — 16:31
10. 09 - 2, 2 - Sweethearts — 16:12
11. 10 - 2, 3 - The Joy of Living — 3:25
12. 11 - 2, 4 - Hidden Treasure — 9:45
13. 12 - 2, 5 - Across the Chasm — 18:08
14. 13 - 2, 6 - The Gauge of Battle — 7:43
15. 14 - 2, 7 - A Woman Laughs — 16:56
16. 15 - 2, 8 - A Dream — 5:38
17. 16 - 2, 9 - The King Amuses Himself — 14:26
18. 17 - 2, 10 - Tossed by the Storm — 4:12
19. 18 - 2, 11 - The Supreme Test — 21:50
20. 19 - 2, 12 - Triumph in Defeat — 12:48
21. 20 - 3, 1 - A Fallen Slaveholder’s Mansion — 25:37
22. 21 - 3, 2 - The Eyes of the Jungle — 7:14
23. 22 - 3, 3 - Augustus Cæsar — 14:08
24. 23 - 3, 4 - At the Point of the Bayonet — 23:08

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