![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() and the Einsatzgruppen responsible for killing countless Jews but was killed by Czech and Slovak resisters in May 1942. The “butcher of Prague,” “hangman of the Gestapo,” and Heinrich Himmler’s right-hand man, Heydrich rose through Nazi ranks to direct the S.S. The Hangman and His Wife: The Life and Death of Reinhard Heydrich by Nancy Dougherty, edited and foreword by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt (Knopf) Dray, author of the excellent At the Hands of Persons Unknown: The Lynching of Black America, looks beyond the Mason-Dixon line and argues that the elements of racism and white supremacy that he has worked so hard to document must be challenged and that we cannot “look away from the connection between the nation’s lynching legacy and the recent resurgence of armed vigilantism in America.” Deeply immersed in the horrific history of lynching in America, this book exposes that this violence is not merely a Southern aberration, but rather deeply woven into the national culture.Ģ. In his fascinating, horrifying new book, Dray spotlights the 1892 lynching of Black teamster Robert Lewis, accused of sexually assaulting a white woman in Port Jervis, a small railroad town northwest of Manhattan. A Lynching at Port Jervis: Race and Reckoning in the Gilded Age by Philip Dray (Farrar, Straus & Giroux) ![]()
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