"The War with Dynamite"

"There were six blasts in all. About 100 people had been at work, and now they were all trapped in flames, smoke and debris. Escape was a battle. Twenty-one people died.
"What caused the explosion? Was it a gas leak? An anarchist bomb? An attack by union members who opposed the adamantly closed-shop policies of the paper's owner, Harrison Gray Otis? Or was it an insurance scam, a scheme to benefit from the $100,000 policy the paper had recently taken on the structure?"

In the Los Angeles Times, Howard Blum tells the story of the 1910 bombing of the Times building.

And Richard Rayner reviews Blum's American Lightning: Terror, Mystery, the Birth of Hollywood, and the Crime of the Century.