TY - BOOK AU - Dixon,Thomas,Jr AU - Cassel,John Harmon TI - The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South AV - PS PY - 2011/// CY - Salt Lake City, UT PB - Project Gutenberg KW - Political fiction KW - Newspaper editors -- Fiction KW - North Carolina -- Fiction KW - Ku Klux Klan (19th century) -- Fiction KW - White supremacy movements -- Fiction KW - Reconstruction (U.S. history, 1865-1877) -- Fiction N1 - Wikipedia page about this book: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Sins_of_the_Father:_A_Romance_of_the_South; Release date is 2011-07-08; E-text prepared by David Edwards, Josephine Paolucci, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team (http://www.pgdp.net) from page images generously made available by Internet Archive (http://www.archive.org); Original publication data not identified N2 - "The Sins of the Father: A Romance of the South" by Thomas Dixon Jr. is a novel published in 1912. Dan Norton, a Confederate veteran and Ku Klux Klan leader, begins a forbidden relationship with Cleo, a quadroon woman hired as his family's caretaker. Their secret affair produces devastating consequences that spiral through the next generation. Dixon explores themes of miscegenation and racial separation against the backdrop of the post-Civil War South, culminating in a tragic ending that destroys Norton's entire family. (This is an automatically generated summary.) UR - https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/36666 ER -