American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century is a non-fiction book by Howard Blum, published in 2008.

Iron Workers Union leaders James and John McNamara plead not guilty.

The book also includes a considerable amount of information about the defense lawyer Clarence Darrow and film director D. W. Griffith, who were involved in the case.

Ohline H. Cogdill wrote in the Miami Herald that the book is epic, gripping, and a cohesive non-fiction thriller.

[1] Richard Rayner wrote in the Los Angeles Times that the book is excellent and sheds valuable new light on the bombing.