{"product_id":"the-leo-frank-case-9780820331799","title":"The Leo Frank Case","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Leo Frank Case\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eForty 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eLeonard 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.\"\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"University of Georgia Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50901688516882,"sku":"9780820331799","price":36.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2865971d-ea23-405b-a3bc-b8549db82af7.jpg?v=1738435373","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-leo-frank-case-9780820331799","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}