The Silent and the Damned - The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank (Paperback)

The 1913 murder of 13-year-old Mary Phagan would have far-reaching consequences for Georgia and the nation; in the years that followed a Jewish man named Leo Frank was convicted on dubious evidence, a governor's career toppled while an anti-Semite became Georgia's senator, and the Anti-Defamation League of B'nai B'rith was formed. The Silent and The Damned: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank tells the horrifying story of how a trial spiraled into mob violence and propaganda campaigns against Jews in the South. The authors, Robert Seitz Frey and Nancy Thompson-Frey, detail the trial that portrayed Frank, the superintendent at the pencil factory where Phagan was employed, as a sexual misfit and killer. The authors describe the responses from and against the Jewish community in Atlanta, and reactions from religious groups and the press across the country. Frey and Thompson also tell of how new evidence from a witness who stayed silent for years brought the case back under scrutiny in the 1980s, leading to a posthumous pardon for Frank. John Seigenthaler, publisher of the Nashville Tennessean and a leader in the efforts to clear Frank's name, provides the introduction.

General

Imprint:	Cooper Square Publishers Inc.,U.S.
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 2002
First published:	February 2002
Authors:	Frey Seitz Frey • Nancy Thompson-Frey
Dimensions:	216 x 149 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	249
ISBN-13:	978-0-8154-1188-8
Categories:	Books > Fiction > True stories > Crime Promotions Books > Fiction > Promotions
LSN:	0-8154-1188-X
Barcode:	9780815411888

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