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

4.0

This was a great book. I'm a sucker for history books like these and this one did not disappoint. Enough research here to be interesting yet not enough written to get me to become bored with information overload. I am currently reading another book with Burns investigating and he really does seem like an amazing man. Clearly had made a name for himself which stands to this day and was involved in some of the most high-profile cases in America. And was paid well, but seemed to earn his payments.
This was a entire series of events that I was entirely unaware of prior to picking up this book and I don't have a whole lot of interest in labor disputes or other types of disagreements, but this was written in a way that it became part of the background and not the focus.
Well written.