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Thomas Dixon is a Chartered Certified Accountant, a Chartered Management Accountant and a Chartered Secretary. He is a senior partner in the firm of Thomas R Dixon & Company, a successful accountancy practice in Newcastle upon Tyne, which has been going for 40 years. He was for some time a Senior Lecturer at Northumbria University and also was Managing Director of Administration Limited, a management consultancy company which has conducted many assignments involved with managerial effectiveness, accountancy and systems. His training company has involved him in nearly 300 time management and accountancy seminars. He has worked all over the UK, Bermuda, France, Portugal and the USA.

Thomas Frederick Dixon Jr. (January 11, 1864 - April 3, 1946) was an American white supremacist, politician, lawyer, Baptist minister, lecturer, novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. Referred to as a "professional racist", Dixon wrote 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), that romanticized Southern white supremacy, endorsed the Lost Cause of the Confederacy, opposed equal rights for blacks, and glorified the Ku Klux Klan as heroic vigilantes. Film director D. W. Griffith adapted The Clansman for the screen in The Birth of a Nation (1915), which inspired the creators of the 20th-century rebirth of the Klan.

Billy Warren knows fifth grade is going to be great. His teacher is wonderful, and his classmates are growing up fast, just like him. But when his teacher asks Billy to befriend Todd Jones, a new kid in town, Billy's dream of a perfect school year quickly transforms into a nightmare. After Todd lures Billy to a remote area of the playground, beats him up, and steals his lunch money, he vows to make Billy's life miserable every day. With help from two other kids, Todd keeps his promise. Isolated from all his friends, Billy turns to the Internet for help. When his search leads him to an unexpected answer, Billy discovers that he has the power not only defeat Todd, but to help him change his ways. The $1.75 Guardian Angel is the heartwarming tale of a fifth grader's amazing journey as he learns how to summon the strength from within to stand up to a bully, with a little supernatural help.

A love story and character study of three strong men and two fascinating women. In swift, unified, and dramatic action, we see Socialism as a deadly force, in the hour of the eclipse of Faith, destroying the home life and weakening the fiber of Anglo Saxon manhood.Thomas Dixon earlier published The Clansman from which D.W. Griffith produced his film Birth of a Nation.

A novel dealing with the establishment of a Socialistic Colony upon a deserted island off the coast of California (set in 1898-1901). The way of disillusionment is the course over which Mr. Dixon conducts the reader. The characters include Herman Wolf, a socialist leader, Norman Worth, an amateur socialist and Barbara Bozenta, a new Joan of Arc.Thomas Dixon earlier published The Clansman from which D.W. Griffith produced his film Birth of a Nation.

A historical novel of Abraham Lincoln --a dramatic web around the life of Abraham Lincoln which cannot fail to be an historic revelation. The book shows the real Lincoln in the life and death struggle with the forces he fought to save the nation --the radical fanatics of his own party, the Copperhead power which daily threatened his life, and the grim gray armies of Lee threatening the Capitol. Through this drama of blood and tears runs a fascinating love story, which culminates in one of the many attempts made to assassinate the President. In a note to the reader, the author states that "every word in relating to the issues of our national life has been drawn from authentic records in my possession. Nor have I at any point taken a liberty with an essential detail in historical scenes." Thomas Dixon earlier published The Clansman from which D.W. Griffith produced his film Birth of a Nation.

Robert E. Lee, the Southern hero, is the gallant Man in Gray who moves through this gripping historical romance. The book opens before the war with a typical scene on the Lee plantation that shows the old South in its heyday. Uncle Tom's Cabin, just published, has cast a dark shadow across the nation and there is a tense undercurrent beneath the polished gaiety in the fine old house. The scene shifts to the North, where abolitionist activities are gaining swift headway. With amazing force Dixon shows John Brown ominously arousing the popular feeling. From this prelude of menacing war clouds, with dramatic episodes to depict the course of events of the broad panorama, is told the romantic and tragic gallantry of the South as seen in Robert E. Lee. Thomas Dixon earlier published The Clansman from which D.W. Griffith produced his film Birth of a Nation."Now that my story is done I see that it is the strangest fiction that I have ever written. Because it is true. It actually happened. Every character in it is historic. I have not changed even a name. Every event took place. Therefore it is incredible. Yet I have in my possession the proof establishing each character and each event as set forth. They are true beyond question." -- Thomas Dixon

Thomas Dixon earlier published The Clansman from which D.W. Griffith produced his film, Birth of a Nation. The Sins of the Father (1912) show him to be surprisingly critical of slavery.

The sequel to The Clansman, with an invasion of America by a secretly raised army of the Imperial Confederation of Europe, during which suffragettes unite with super patriots. Originally published in 1916, this was sensational fiction about our preparedness, with Germans invading New York in 1918 and sinking our battleships.Thomas Dixon (1864-1946) earlier published The Clansman from which D.W. Griffith produced his film Birth of a Nation.

"In the historical romance which I have woven of the dramatic events of the life of Jefferson Davis I have drawn his real character unobscured by passion or prejudice. Forced by his people to lead their cause, his genius created an engine of war so terrible in its power that through it five million Southerners, without money, without market, without credit, withstood for four years the shock of twenty million men of their own blood and equal daring, backed by boundless resources. "The achievement is without a parallel in history, and adds new glory to the records of our race. "The scenes have all been drawn from authentic records in my possession. I have not at any point taken a liberty with an essential detail of history." -- Thomas DixonThomas Dixon (1864-1946) earlier published The Clansman from which D.W. Griffith produced his film Birth of a Nation.

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Thomas Dixon was a lawyer, North Carolina state legislator, Baptist minister, lecturer, and novelist. This novel, an abridgement by Cary Wintz, was originally published in 1905. It reflects turn-of-the-century attitudes most southerners had about Republican rule during Reconstruction.