The Silent and the Damned: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank - Hardcover

Thompson-Frey, Nancy; Frey, Frey Seitz

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0819164917 ISBN 13: 9780819164919

Publisher: Madison Books, 1988

Synopsis

This is the chilling and unforgettable story of the sensational trial, unjust conviction, and lynching of Leo M. Frank for the murder of his thirteen-year-old employee Mary Phagan. In the heated atmosphere of fear and anti-Semitism surrounding the murder, a mob dragged Frank from his prison cell and executed him.

About this title

About the Author:

Robert Seitz Frey is the author of six books, including Our Future in Light of Twentieth-Century Evil and The Imperative Response, and has written numerous articles and reviews. He resides in Monkton, Maryland. Nancy C. Thompson, who cowrote The Imperative Response and whose articles have appeared in The Jewish Spectator and Christian Jewish Relations, lives in Ellicott City, Maryland.

Review:

The story is so gripping that I literally could not put the book down. (Jonathan Kirsch Los Angeles Times)

The authors are to be commended for this calm, dispassionate, yet chilling story of how bigotry can kill a man and destroy a system of justice.... Must reading! (Abraham H. Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League)

About this edition

• Publisher: Madison Books
• Publication date: 1988
• ISBN 10: 0819164917
• ISBN 13: 9780819164919
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 200