Authors: Howard Blum
Tags: #History, #United States, #20th Century, #Performing Arts, #Film & Video, #History & Criticism
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Nonfiction
The Eve of Destruction
The Brigade
The Gold of Exodus
Gangland
Out There
I Pledge Allegiance: The True Story of the Walkers:
An American Spy Family
Wanted!: The Search for Nazis in America
Fiction
Wishful Thinking
Copyright © 2008 by Howard Blum
All rights reserved.
Published in the United States by Crown Publishers, an imprint of the Crown Publishing Group, a division of Random House, Inc., New York.
www.crownpublishing.com
CROWN and the Crown colophon are registered trademarks of Random House, Inc.
Portions of this book appeared in slightly altered form in
Vanity Fair.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Blum, Howard.
American lightning : terror, mystery, movie-making, and the crime of the century / Howard Blum. —1st ed.
p. cm.
1. Bombings—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century.
2. Terrorism—California—Los Angeles—History—20th century.
3. Otis, Harrison Gray, 1837—1917. I. Title.
HV6440.B58 2008
364.152'3097949409041—dc22 2008002974
eISBN: 978-0-307-41026-9
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