American lightning terror, mystery, movie-making, and the crime of the century
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...
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New York :
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c2008.
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| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a American lightning : |b terror, mystery, movie-making, and the crime of the century / |c Howard Blum. |
| 250 | |a 1st ed. | ||
| 260 | |a New York : |b Crown Publishers, |c c2008. | ||
| 300 | |a 339 p., [8] p. of plates : |b ill. ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [323]-335) . | ||
| 520 | |a 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. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Terrorism |z California |z Los Angeles |x History |y 20th century. | |
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