American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century

By Howard Blum

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pr0n_cena
Nov 07, 2025
4/10 stars
The history covered (the labor/capital wars) is very interesting. The ties between the crime and D. W. Griffith feels shoehorned and really had me asking, "How much longer is this..." Without citations for all dialogue written, it's really hard not to wonder, especially in that 3rd person narrative, how speculative the emotions portrayed as fact are actually the author's projections.

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