And the Dead Shall Rise by Steve Oney

And the Dead Shall Rise by Steve Oney

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 prejudices and resentments. He introduces a Dickensian pageant of characters, including zealous policemen, intrepid reporters, Frank's martyred wife, and a fiery populist who manipulated local anger at Northern newspapers that pushed for Frank's exoneration. Combining investigative journalism and sweeping social history, this is the definitive account of one of American history's most repellent and most fascinating moments.

Steve Oney attended the University of Georgia and Harvard University, where he received a Nieman Fellowship. He was a staff writer for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution Magazine for many years. He has also written for national periodicals such as Esquire, Playboy, Premiere, GQ, and the New York Times Magazine. His tales have appeared in The Best American Sports Writing (2006) and The Best American Magazine Writing (2008) anthologies. Oney and his wife, Madeline Stuart, live in Los Angeles.

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ISBN 13	9780679764236
ISBN 10	0679764232
Title	And the Dead Shall Rise
Author	Steve Oney
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2004-10-12
Number of pages	784
Prizes	Winner of American Bar Association Silver Gavel Award 2004, Short-listed for J. Anthony Lukas Book Prize 2004
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