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Oct. 2003. 768p. illus. Index. Pantheon, $35 (0-679-42147-5). 364.15.
On April 26, 1913, 13-year-old Mary Phagan went to collect her pay envelope from the National Pencil Factory in Atlanta. The following morning her severely beaten body was discovered there in a trash-filled depression of the basement. Her murder launched a train of events that would divide Atlanta, stoke the fires of racism and anti-Semitism, and draw in a variety of powerful outside interests. Oney is a Los Angeles-based journalist raised in Atlanta. He has written a powerful, engrossing, and unsettling work that combines the best elements of a murder mystery, courtroom drama, and social ...