The Temple Bombing - by Melissa Fay Greene (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>From the author of the National Book Award-nominated "Praying for Sheetrock" comes an important and compelling work of modern nonfiction--the story of the bombing of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. Winner of the 1996 Southern Book Award. of photos.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>At 3:37 in the morning of Sunday, October 12, 1958, a bundle of dynamite blew out the side wall of the Temple, Atlanta's oldest and richest synagogue. The devastation to the building was vast-but even greater were the changes those 50 sticks of dynamite made to Atlanta, the South, and ultimately, all of the United States (<em>Detroit Free Press</em>). Finalist for the National Book Award, <em>The Temple Bombing</em> is the brilliant and moving examination of one town that came together in the face of hatred, a book that rescues a slice of the civil rights era whose lessons still resonate nearly fifty years after that fateful fall day.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Melissa Fay Greene</b> is an award-winning author and journalist whose writing has appeared in the <i>New Yorker</i>, the <i>New York Times</i>, the <i>Washington Post</i>, the <i>Atlantic Monthly</i>, the <i>Chicago Tribune</i>, and <i>Newsweek</i>. She is also the author of <i>Last Man Out: The Story of the Springhill Mine Disaster</i> and <i>There Is No Me Without You</i> (Bloomsbury Press). She lives in Atlanta, Georgia.
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