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And the Dead Shall Rise The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank

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ISBN-10: 0679764232

ISBN-13: 9780679764236

Edition: N/A

Authors: Steve Oney

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In 1913, 13-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. The factory manager, a college-educated Jew named Leo Frank, was arrested, tried, and convicted in a trial that seized national headlines. When the governor commuted his death sentence, Frank was kidnapped and lynched by a group of prominent local citizens. Steve Oney’s acclaimed account re-creates the entire story for the first time, from the police investigations to the gripping trial to the brutal lynching and its aftermath. Oney vividly renders Atlanta, a city enjoying newfound prosperity a half-century after the Civil War, but still rife with barely hidden…    
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Book details

List price: $26.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 10/12/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 784
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.95" long x 1.77" tall
Weight: 1.606
Language: English

Steve Oney was educated at the University of Georgia and at Harvard, where he was a Nieman Fellow. He worked for many years as a staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine. He has also contributed articles to many national publications, including Esquire, Playboy, Premiere, GQ and the New York Times Magazine. Oney lives in Los Angeles with his wife, Madeline Stuart. This is his first book. From the Hardcover edition.

April 26, 1913
Look Out, White Folks
Extra, Extra
Onward, Christian Soldiers
A Good Name, A Bad Reputation
Skulduggery
A Clean Nigger
A Tramp Alumnus
Skirmishes
Prosecution
Defense
Verdict
Appeals in and out of Court
Brightness Visible
Darkness Falls
A Change of Heart
Cause Celebre
Commutation
Marietta
Milledgeville
The Lynching of Leo Frank
Burial
Recessional
The Revenant
Epilogue
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Index