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The hosts discussed how this book, along with Dixon's play and the film 'The Birth of a Nation,' helped reborn the Klan, though Dixon himself later condemned the second Klan.

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Thomas Dixon wrote this novel in 1915, inspired by his father and uncle's involvement in the Klan. The book became a popular play and was later adapted by D.W. Griffith into the film The Birth of a Nation.

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Dixon wrote this 1905 novel with the subtitle 'a historical romance of the Ku Klux Klan' which became the basis for D.W. Griffith's film 'The Birth of a Nation' and helped inspire the second incarnation of the Klan.

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A 1902 novel by Dixon that was an account of Reconstruction in which he argued that 'a leopard can't change its spots' - meaning African-Americans couldn't change their nature as former slaves.