a review by Mark Cohen of Steve Oney’s And the Dead Shall Rise IN HIS 742-page magnum opus about the Leo Frank case, author Steve Oney shamelessly fails to inform the reader of who ultimately solved the Mary Phagan murder mystery in 1913. On Monday morning, April 28, 1913, Leo Frank was taken to the Atlanta Police Station for routine Continue Reading →
by H. Millard “MANY WHITE FOLKS, even those with some White consciousness, still don’t get it about Arman’s teachings and their own existence,” said Homeless Jack. “If they did understand more, they’d be stronger in their beliefs about their Whiteness and would live happier more fulfilled lives. “Some Whites talk about race and racial differences but they start too far Continue Reading →
by Victor Misek THE PENSION FUND CRISIS in the United States extends into the public and private sectors of the economy to an extent unprecedented in the history of mankind. It’s instructive to compare two of the most notorious individuals involved in the mass destruction and destabilization of pension funds invested in debt instruments. The two individuals in my cross-hairs are Continue Reading →
by Elliot Dashfield a review of The Leo Frank Case by Leonard Dinnerstein, University of Georgia Press IN 1963, nearly a half century after the sensational trial and lynching of Leo Frank become a national cause célèbre, a graduate student named Leonard Dinnerstein (pictured) decided to make the Frank case the subject of his PhD thesis. Three years later, Dinnerstein Continue Reading →
a review by George Hunka H.L. MENCKEN cut his satirical teeth on drama and theatre, as the excellent new anthology, The Collected Drama of H.L. Mencken: Plays and Criticism, edited by S.T. Joshi and published by Scarecrow Press, attests. Joshi has collected all of Mencken’s plays (many of which first appeared in the 1916 A Book of Burlesques) and a Continue Reading →