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MEMBERS OF THE TRIBE by Richard Kluger Doubleday; 471 pages...
...murder. The victim is a 14-year-old Christian girl, and the defendant is the plant manager of a new soft-drink firm that strongly resembles Coca-Cola in its formative years. Deep and violent prejudice shows itself as angry crowds clog Savannah streets during the trial. Here Kluger (author of last year's widely praised Simple Justice, an account of the Supreme Court's 1954 anti-segregation decision) borrows from history by making inventive use of the Leo Frank case. Frank was an Atlanta Jew - the manager of a pencil factory - who in 1913 was convicted...
...author makes no pronouncements about why Christian tribalism periodically festers with hatred of Jews. He merely holds to his story of an American Jew who believed, despite agonizing evidence to the contrary, that this hatred was an aberration, and not a basic part of his country's character. Kluger's novel makes this point with an impressive measure of good sense and strength. -John Skow
SIMPLE JUSTICE by Richard Kluger. A dramatic and illuminating social, legal and political history of the most important law case of our time-Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, which resulted in the 1954 Supreme Court decision outlawing racial segregation in public schools...
...agree on the manner in which desegregation should be carried out. Nonetheless the law stands: an act of collective conscience. By making it clear at the end of 800-plus pages that on one spring day in 1954 Warren spoke not only for the court but for the U.S., Kluger has performed another kind of simple justice...