American Lightning : Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century
date of publication: 2008
ISBN-13: 978-0-307-34694-0
ISBN-10: 0-307-34694-3
A tale of murder, deceit, celebrity, media manipulation, and film as propaganda, when the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building in 1910 exposed a deadly "national dynamite plot" by trade unionists to terrorize America with one hundred bombings in a doomed attempt to force capitalism to its knees. The relentless pursuit, capture, trial, and punishment of the bombers made a national hero of master detective Billy Burns, and entangled crusading defense lawyer Clarence Darrow in a reckless, nearly career-ending scheme to bribe witnesses and jurors and throttle justice. Meanwhile, the events inspired D.W. Griffith to make his groundbreaking film The Birth of a Nation. Source: OpenLibrary
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- isbn:9780307346940 - inv:e2e2484df5b02a8ead9188dc5ec4d3aa
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