| The Leo Frank Case Revised Edition Contributor(s): Dinnerstein, Leonard (Author) |
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ISBN: 0820331791 ISBN-13: 9780820331799 Publisher: University of Georgia Press OUR PRICE: $33.20 Product Type: Paperback Published: September 2008 Annotation: Eighty-five years after the murder of Mary Phagan and the subsequent trial and lynching of the accused killer, a Jewish factory manager from the North, The Leo Frank Case remains the major account of the event that prompted B'nai B'rith to found the Anti-Defamation League. In April 1913, thirteen-year-old Mary Phagan was found brutally murdered in the basement of the Atlanta pencil factory where she worked. Leo Frank, the factory manager, was arrested and accused of her murder. After two years of trials highlighted by sensational newspaper coverage, popular hysteria, and legal demagoguery, Frank was sentenced to death despite inconclusive evidence of his guilt. Although the governor of Georgia commuted his sentence, a mob kidnapped and lynched Frank near Phagan's hometown. In this classic study of one of the most infamous outbursts of anti-Semitism in the United States, Leonard Dinnerstein not only tells the compelling stories of Phagan's and Frank's deaths, he also places Frank's trial and lynching in the context of a rapidly changing southern society. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | United States - State & Local - South (al,ar,fl,ga,ky,la,ms,nc,sc,tn,va,wv) - History | United States - 20th Century - True Crime | Murder - General |
| Dewey: 345.730 |
| Series: Brown Thrasher Books |
| Physical Information: 0.8" H x 5.4" W x 8.3" (0.85 lbs) 280 pages |
| Themes: - Locality - Atlanta, Georgia - Chronological Period - 1900-1919 - Cultural Region - South - Ethnic Orientation - Jewish - Geographic Orientation - Georgia - Religious Orientation - Jewish |
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| Publisher Description: The events surrounding the 1913 murder of the young Atlanta factory worker Mary Phagan and the subsequent lynching of Leo Frank, the transplanted northern Jew who was her employer and accused killer, were so wide ranging and tumultuous that they prompted both the founding of B'nai B'rith's Anti-Defamation League and the revival of the Ku Klux Klan. The Leo Frank Case was the first comprehensive account of not only Phagan's murder and Frank's trial and lynching but also the sensational newspaper coverage, popular hysteria, and legal demagoguery that surrounded these events. Forty years after the book first appeared, and more than ninety years after the deaths of Phagan and Frank, it remains a gripping account of injustice. In his preface to the revised edition, Leonard Dinnerstein discusses the ongoing cultural impact of the Frank affair. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dinnerstein, Leonard: - LEONARD DINNERSTEIN is an emeritus professor of American history at the University of Arizona, where he directed the Judaic Studies Program. His books include America and the Survivors of the Holocaust and Antisemitism in America. |