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

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While preparation is laid for America’s highest profile trial ever—and the forces of labor and capital wage hand-to-hand combat in the streets—two other notable figures Griffith, who perceives in these events the possibility of great art and who will go on to alchemize his observations into the very heart of early-twentieth-century America.

With smoke still wafting up from the charred ruins, the city’s mayor reacts with undisguised excitement when he learns of the Los Angeles Times’s fiercely anti-union owner—of not just one heinous deed but of being part of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.


From the Hardcover edition.
On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the Los Angeles Times’s fiercely anti-union owner—of not just one heinous deed but of being part of a story whose reverberations continue even today, American Lightning is a masterpiece of narrative nonfiction.


From the Hardcover edition.
On the morning of October 1, 1910, the walls of the century”—and an aftermath more dramatic than even the crime itself.

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