A review by jobustitch
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood & the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum

3.0

The writing was great and the book was easy to read. I loved the short chapters. They seemed to push you on to "one more chapter before I go to sleep."

But I found the links between Darrow, Burns, and Griffith very tenuous. Darrow and Burns are easy to put together because of the trial. The D.W. Griffith angle was a bit of a stretch. Still, an overall entertaining read.