Context:

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.

Context:

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.