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Article: And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank.(Book Review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- May 1, 2005
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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: Pantheon Books, c. 2003. Pp. [x], 742. $35.00, ISBN 0-679-42147-5.)
By now the broad outlines of this grim story are well known. On April 27, 1913, Atlanta policemen--summoned by the night watchman of the National Pencil Factory--discovered the body of thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan, a precociously beautiful young woman who had earned ten cents an hour inserting rubber erasers into the metal tips of pencils. Five months later in an atmosphere of hysteria whipped up by Atlanta's sensationalist press, a jury found the Jewish superintendent of the factory, Leo ...