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American Lightning Audio Book

American Lightning:
Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century
Author: Howard Blum
Reader: John H. Mayer

In 1910, the trade unionists' terrorist plot resulted in the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building, killing 21 and wounding scores more. The aftermath drew together America's greatest detective, its most famous defense attorney, and its most talented filmmaker. Mystery Writers of America Edgar Award winner, 2009. "Fabulous tale... entertaining and thoroughly engaging... Mayer reads with an air of old Hollywood: brisk, crisp, and always attractive."—Publishers Weekly » Read More

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Publish Date: 09/16/2008
ISBN: 9780739374559

Synopsis:

The 1910 bombing of the Los Angeles Times building sent shock waves through the nation, instigating a high-profile investigation and trial that would shape the dynamics of labor relations for the rest of the century. Journalist and author Howard Blum weaves this fascinating saga and that of early Hollywood together into a page-turning historical narrative with a bigger-than-life cast of characters. You've got filmmaker D.W. Griffith, defense attorney Clarence Darrow, radical labor activists, and bourgeois capitalists--not to mention a celebrity private eye named William J. Burns, formerly a Secret Service agent, who would become director of the organization that prefigured the FBI. Blum's prose reads like your favorite detective story and brings this chapter in American history to life. AMERICAN LIGHTNING won the 2009 Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime.

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Winner of the 2009 Edgar Allan Poe Award in Best Fact Crime Novel

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