The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln – Thomas Dixon

The Southerner: A Romance of the Real Lincoln. By Thomas Dixon. New York: D. Appleton and Company, 1913. First printing in rare dust jacket, unclipped, minor chipping at edges. First Edition. With “(1)” present at final page of text. Brick cloth boards, a small spot of biopredation at outer front hinge. Illustrated by J. N. Marchand. 544 pp. Very Good Plus.

Thomas Dixon [Jr.] (January 11, 1864 – April 3, 1946) was an American white supremacist and author, among other things. He wrote three novels, including this title, and two best-selling novels: The Leopard’s Spots: A Romance of the White Man’s Burden—1865–1900 (1902) and The Clansman: A Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan (1905). His works often romanticized white supremacy in the American South, opposed equal rights, and glorified members of the KKK as heroic vigilantes. The film production of The Birth of a Nation in 1915 by director D. W. Griffith was an adaptation of Dixon’s work, The Clansman.