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Article: Leo Frank: a definitive reassessment.(And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank by Steve Oney)(Book Review)
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- November 1, 2004
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And The Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank, by Steve Oney. New York, NY: Pantheon Books, 2003, 742 pp., hardcover, $35.00.
Three features leap to the attention of those who examine the seating ordeal of Leo Frank: it was the only recorded lynching of a Jew in the history of this nation; the singular episode of Jew-hatred that catapulted a political figure into public office; and it occurred in a region where anti-semitism was no more malignant than elsewhere in the United States but that was unsurpassed in antagonism and violence against African-Americans. Yet the victim was a respectable businessman when the evidence at the ...