Volume 55, Number 18 · November 20, 2008
How They Blew Up the L.A. Times
By Russell Baker
American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, Movie-Making, and the Crime of the Century
by Howard Blum
Crown, 339 pp., $24.95
During the half-century between Lincoln and Woodrow Wilson, class warfare in the United States was always robust, usually ferocious, and often homicidal. Since the moneyed class controlled most of the heavy weapons—courts, state militias, municipal police forces, banks, newspapers, governors, senators, and often even the presidency—it won most of the battles and naturally ended up owning the lion's share of the national wealth.
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