AMERICAN LIGHTNING: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the…

AMERICAN LIGHTNING: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century by Blum, Howard. < >

AMERICAN LIGHTNING: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century

Edition: First printing.

New York: Crown, (2008) dj. Hardcover first edition - A book which "evokes the original 'crime of the century' [the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building on Oct 1, 1910] and an aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself - a seminal episode in America's history that would spark national debate and draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading lawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W. Griffith." Cast of characters, photographs, notes on sources. 339 pp. Illustrated endpapers. ISBN: 0-307346943.

Condition: Fine in fine dust jacket.

Book ID: 71394
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