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* Oney, Steve. And the Dead Shall Rise: the Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank.(Book Review)(Brief Article)

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| September 15, 2003 | Freeman, Jay | COPYRIGHT 2003 American Library Association. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

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 ...

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