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A review by treehuggeranonymous
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood & the Crime of the Century by Howard Blum
1.0
Took a lot to get into this book. Only really peaked my interest around the water conspiracy and San Fernando valley, and I think I would have preferred that.
These sort of books annoy me sometimes by spending too much time on the background and personal lives of the people involved. This book goes a step further by devoting so much of it's time to DW Griffiths, who has no relevance to the bombings or the labour movement and wasn't even in California at the time. At the end they justify this diversion by claiming that Griffith's pro-klan movie was inspired by these events, which is what brought my two-star feelings for the book down to a on-star.
These sort of books annoy me sometimes by spending too much time on the background and personal lives of the people involved. This book goes a step further by devoting so much of it's time to DW Griffiths, who has no relevance to the bombings or the labour movement and wasn't even in California at the time. At the end they justify this diversion by claiming that Griffith's pro-klan movie was inspired by these events, which is what brought my two-star feelings for the book down to a on-star.