Volume 51, Number 2 · February 12, 2004
An American Tragedy
By Marshall Frady
And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank
by Steve Oney
Pantheon, 742 pp., $35.00
These days the city of Atlanta lifts to the eye a panorama of shimmering office towers indistinguishable from the Everycities of America's corporate civilization, with the same surrounding suburban plain of toy-neat houses innumerably ranked along a maze of cul-de-sacs. It seems now wholly translated beyond the old furies and sulfurs of its region's past, famously hailed by its mayor even during the South's racial convulsions of the Fifties as 'the city too busy to hate.'
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