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American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, and the Birth of Hollywood

American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, and the Birth of Hollywood - Paperback

by Howard Blum
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Availability:In StockContributor:Howard BlumPublish date:2009-10-06Pages:368
Language:EnglishPublisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)ISBN-13:9780307346957ISBN-10:307346951UPC:9780307346957Book Category:History, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, MurderBook Topic:State & Local, 20th CenturySize:8.04 x 5.22 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SC5DRDYYPR
In this masterpiece of narrative history, acclaimed author Howard Blum evokes the original "crime of the century" 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.

"Hugely engaging . . . has tremendous verve . . . American Lightning throws valuable new light on an episode that seems, for us today, particularly pertinent. Terrorism happened here." -Los Angeles Times

"A fast-moving, skillfully constructed account . . . Blum's style is cinematic." -Chicago Sun-Times

"Compelling . . . a tense detective story." -Seattle Times

"A thumping-good drumroll of narrative history . . . the cross-country manhunt reads like a great mystery novel . . . Blum blows the dust off a page of America's own incendiary past and brings it to pulsating life." -Dallas Morning News
Language:EnglishPublisher:Crown Publishing Group (NY)ISBN-13:9780307346957ISBN-10:307346951UPC:9780307346957Book Category:History, True CrimeBook Subcategory:United States, MurderBook Topic:State & Local, 20th CenturySize:8.04 x 5.22 x 0.74 inchesWeight:0.571Product ID:SC5DRDYYPR
HOWARD BLUM is the author of eight previous books, including the national bestsellers Wanted!, The Gold of Exodus, and Gangland. Currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Blum was also a reporter at the New York Times, where he won numerous journalism awards and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his investigative reporting.
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group (NY)

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