AMERICAN LIGHTNING(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　In this masterpiece of narrative history, acclaimed author
Howard Blum evokes the original “crime of the century” and an
aftermath even more dramatic than the crime itself–a seminal
episode in America’s history that would spark national debate and
draw into its orbit master sleuth William J. Burns, crusading
lawyer Clarence Darrow, and industry-shaping filmmaker D. W.
Griffith.
　　”Hugely engaging . . . has tremendous verve . . . American
Lightning throws valuable new light on an episode that seems, for
us today, particularly pertinent. Terrorism happened here.” –Los
Angeles Times
　　”A fast-moving, skillfully constructed account . . . Blum’s style
is cinematic.” –Chicago Sun-Times
　　”Compelling . . . a tense detective story.” –Seattle Times
　　”A thumping-good drumroll of narrative history . . . the
cross-country manhunt reads like a great mystery novel . . . Blum
blows the dust off a page of America’s own incendiary past and
brings it to pulsating life.” –Dallas Morning News

　　HOWARD BLUM is the author of eight previous books, including
the national bestsellers Wanted!, The Gold of Exodus, and Gangland.
Currently a contributing editor at Vanity Fair, Blum was also a
reporter at the New York Times, where he won numerous journalism
awards and was twice nominated for the Pulitzer Prize for his
investigative reporting.
　　From the Hardcover edition.

　　“Extraordinary…[reads] like a horseless-carriage episode of
’24.’”
　　—Wall Street Journal
　　“An absorbing, novel-like narrative…masterfully crafted…Blum’s
dedication to digging for facts and adhering to journalistic
principles in reporting this entangled and multifaceted tale l00
years after the fact raises comparisons to Truman Capote’s
diligence in writing IN COLD BLOOD…AMERICAN LIGHTNING is a
must-read.”
　　—USA Today
　　“Hugely engaging…has tremendous verve…AMERICAN LIGHTNING throws
valuable new light on an episode that seems, for us today,
particularly pertinent. Terrorism happened here.”
　　—Los Angeles Times
　　“A fast-moving, skillfully constructed account…Blum’s style is
cinematic.”
　　—Chicago Sun-Times
　　“Compelling…a tense detective story.”
　　—The Seattle Times
　　“A thumping-good drum roll of narrative history…the cross-country
manhunt reads like a great mystery novel…Blum blows the dust off a
page of America’s own incendiary past and brings it to pulsating
life.”
　　—Dallas Morning News
　　“Blum’s engaging prose makes this scandal — with its
O.J.-trial-like impact — come alive.”
　　—Details
　　“In an approach reminiscent of Truman Capote’s IN COLD BLOOD,
Blum paints is characters in all their grandeur and tragedy, making
them — and their era — come alive. Blum’s prose is tight, his
speculations unfailingly sound and his research extensive — all
adding up to an absorbing and masterful true crime
narrative.”
　　—Publishers Weekly (Starred Review)
　　“The author’s eye for scene-setting and subtle explication
perfectly mimics a Griffith-style camera. Blum is at his best when
exploring the motivations, the genius and the deep flaws of his
three principals, men who occupied the same room only once in their
lives, but who are memorably linked in this book. Unfailingly
entertaining.”
　　—Kirkus Reviews (Starred Review)
　　“Completely riveting…Blum chronicles the trial and its aftermath,
building suspense with an astonishing cast of characters.”
　　—Booklist (Starred Review)
　　“Master detective William Burns on one side and famed attorney
Clarence Darrow on the other…A riveting account of 20th century
homegrown political terrorism.”
　　—Library Journal
　　“An unforgettable tale of murder, deceit, celebrity, media
manipulation, and film as propaganda, when the bombing of the Los
Angeles Times building exposed the 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 America’s Sherlock Holmes, 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. Gripping, surprising, often thrilling,
AMERICAN LIGHTNING ranks among the most riveting works of narrative
history.”
　　—James L. Swanson, author of the Edgar Award-winning New York
Times bestseller MANHUNT: THE 12-DAY CHASE FOR LINCOLN’S
KILLER
　　“This is a wonderful story, with a cast of characters out of a
Cecil B. DeMille epic, told in a style that is lucid, lyrical, even
electric. Narrative history at its very best.”
　　—Joseph J. Ellis, Pulitzer Prize winning author of FOUNDING
BROTHERS and AMERICAN CREATION
　　“In AMERICAN LIGHTNING Howard Blum brings to life the tragic
bombing of the Los Angeles Times in l910. Writing with narrative
verve and finely-honed detective instincts, Blum fleshes out the
real story behind this hideous act of domestic terrorism. Highly
recommended!”
　　—Douglas Brinkley, New York Times bestselling author of THE GREAT
DELUGE and TOUR OF DUTY and Professor of History, Rice
University
　　”Howard Blum has given us a fascinating–and hugely
entertaining–glimpse into early 20th-century America. The
burgeoning labor movement, the dawn of the movies, bomb-toting
anarchists, ‘the crime of the century,’ gimlet-eyed private
detectives, Clarence Darrow,  you name it and it’s here.
And–eat your hearts out, novelists–it’s all true.”
　　—John Steele Gordon, author of EMPIRE OF WEALTH: THE EPIC HISTORY
OF AMERICAN ECONOMIC POWER
　　“As good a true-crime tale as you could hope to find,
well-researched, vivid, irresistible.”
　　—Andrew Solomon, author of the National Book Award-winning THE
NOONDAY DEMON
　　“Howard Blum has performed a literary miracle. He has brought
back to vivid and relevant life a forgotten act of terrorism in
America’s past — and made it as suspenseful and crowded with
unforgettable characters as any novel I have ever read.”
　　—Thomas Fleming, New York Times bestselling author of THE
OFFICERS’ WIVES, TIME AND TIDE and THE PERILS OF PEACE
　　“AMERICAN LIGHTNING strikes at the soul of Los Angeles the way
RAGTIME revealed turn-of-the-century New York. Like E. L. Doctorow,
Howard Blum has captured a time and a place through masterful
manipulation of true events, weaving an intricate tale of class war
and intrigue that harks back to an era when L.A. was little more
than a pueblo, frontier justice still prevailed and a fabulous cast
of real-life characters dragged the future metropolis kicking and
screaming into the 20th Century.”
　　—Dennis McDougal, New York Times bestselling author of THE LAST
MOGUL: LEW WASSERMAN, MCA, AND THE HIDDEN HISTORY OF HOLLYWOOD and
PRIVILEGED SON: OTIS CHANDLER AND THE RISE AND FALL OF THE LA TIMES
DYNASTY
　　From the Hardcover edition.