The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire

by Thomas Dixon

"The Traitor: A Story of the Fall of the Invisible Empire" by Thomas Dixon Jr. is a novel published in 1907. The third installment in Dixon's Ku Klux Klan trilogy, it follows Confederate veteran John Graham as Grand Dragon of the Klan in North Carolina. When the original Klan disbands under orders from its first Grand Wizard, a rival starts a new organization. The novel explores Dixon's distinction between what he viewed as the "good" original Klan and a more violent successor group during the Reconstruction era.