The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan

Originally published in 1905, this novel describes the anxiety and confusion of the years immediately after the South's defeat in the American Civil War. Faced with a total breakdown of law and order, some southern leaders called upon the spirits of their ancestors, the clansmen of Old Scotland. The Klu Klux Klan was conceived as an "Invisible Empire" pledged to protect the people of the South. This Klan, disbanded in 1869, was totally different from the one resurrected in the 1920s. This new reprinted edition contains a new forward by James P. Cantrell.