Authors: Howard Blum
casualties, 77, 85
economy, 111, 121, 134–39
horses, 267–71
Lusitania
sinking, 337–38, 338, 339–40, 389, 415
submarine warfare, 40, 226, 269, 337–40, 415–16
U.S. enters, 417–18,
418,
419–20
U.S. loans and arms shipments to allies, 40, 111, 133–40, 183–84, 187–90, 211–17, 222, 257–63, 274, 330–31, 384
U.S. neutrality, 40, 51–52, 76, 80, 105, 111–12, 134–39, 219, 280, 327, 339
wrestling, 54
Wright Chemical Works bombing, 94
Yale University, 108
Yorkville, 70, 118
Zabriskie, William, 301–4
zeppelins, 143–44
Zimmermann, Arthur, 33,
33,
34, 145, 416
telegram, 416, 416, 417, 417
H
oward Blum is the author of the
New York Times
bestseller and Edgar Award winner
American Lightning
, as well as
Wanted!
,
The Gold Exodus
,
Gangland
, and, most recently,
The Floor of Heaven
. Blum is a contributing editor at
Vanity Fair
. While at the
New York Times
, he was twice nominated for a Pulitzer Prize for investigative reporting. He lives in Connecticut and is the father of three children.
Visit
www.AuthorTracker.com
for exclusive information on your favorite HarperCollins authors.
N
ONFICTION
The Floor of Heaven
American Lightning
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
F
ICTION
Wishful Thinking
DARK INVASION.
Copyright © 2014 by Howard Blum. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
FIRST EDITION
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data has been applied for.
ISBN 978-0-06-230755-2
EPub Edition FEBRUARY 2014 ISBN 9780062307590
Australia
HarperCollins Publishers (Australia) Pty. Ltd.
Level 13, 201 Elizabeth Street
Sydney, NSW 2000, Australia
http://www.harpercollins.com.au
Canada
HarperCollins Canada
2 Bloor Street East - 20th Floor
Toronto, ON, M4W, 1A8, Canada
New Zealand
HarperCollins Publishers (New Zealand) Limited
P.O. Box 1
Auckland, New Zealand
http://www.harpercollins.co.nz
United Kingdom
HarperCollins Publishers Ltd.
77-85 Fulham Palace Road
London, W6 8JB, UK
http://www.harpercollins.co.uk
United States
HarperCollins Publishers Inc.
10 East 53rd Street
New York, NY 10022