Reviews
"A work of sympathetic imagination that invites comparison to Norman Mailer'sExecutioner's Song.The book packs a wallop at many levels, from the mythic Southern characters to the violent infrastructure of our cultural memory." --Theodore Rosengarten,The New York TImes "[Oney] tells this fascinating and complex true-crime story in impressively thorough detail . . . Oney's definitive account is a major achievement." -- David J. Garrow,The Los Angeles Times "Steve Oney's brilliant narrative shows why, 90 years later, the tale of murder and revenge in Georgia still has the capacity to fascinate, provoking the classical responses to tragedy: pity, awe, and sorrow without end." -- Shelby Coffey III,Washington POst Book World "Steve Oney's epicAnd the Dead Shall Riseis a book I've been waiting my whole life to read. I was born in Atlanta, and used to hear my mother and grandmother argue for the innocence of Leo Frank against all comers. This book is a tragedy and a triumph and a wonder, all at the same time." --Pat Conroy, author ofThe Prince of Tides "A superb work of true crime -- and an altogether remarkable exercise in what might be called judicial archaeology." --Kirkus Reviews(starred) "This is the book on the Leo Frank case I had been waiting for and one the reading public needs. I am struck by the narrative skill and ingenuity. For the first time I understand the full ironies, paradoxes, and horrors of this tragedy. I found the book difficult to put down." -- C. Vann Woodward, author ofThe Strange Career of Jim Crow
