The First Attack on the Homeland – Howard Blum

On September 11, 2016, our lecture series, “Heaven, Hell or Hoboken: Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of World War I, featured Howard Blum, historian and author of Dark Invasion, 1915: Germany’s Secret War and the Hunt for the First Terrorist Cell in America, an in-depth look at several German espionage plots leading up to WWI. He also wrote the Edgar Award–winner American Lightning, as well as Wanted!, The Gold Exodus, Gangland, and 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. Blum’s current book, The Last Goodnight: A World War II Story of Espionage, Adventure and Betrayal (Harper Collins, 2016) is a New York Times bestseller.