Scott Martelle's Reviews
Reviews of Scott’s Work
May.01.2011
Published by Los Angeles Times
In his cogent, nuanced account of the 1949 prosecution of American communists under the Smith Act, former Los Angeles Times staff writer Scott Martelle sees this case fitting into...
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Mar.14.2011
Published by Publishers Weekly
In this illuminating examination of a troubling episode in America's past, veteran journalist (and PW contributor) Martelle (Blood Passion: The Ludlow Massacre and Class War in...
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Jan.19.2009
Published by The New Yorker
The review is of Thomas Andrews' Killing for Coal but draws also from Blood Passion, which Crain describes as "a lively journalistic account."
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Aug.17.2007
Published by Rocky Mountain News
When the Democratic National Committee announced that Denver had been selected to host the 2008 Democratic convention, it appeared for a while that those plans could be derailed...
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Aug.19.2007
Published by Los Angeles Times Book Review
IT’S never been certain who started shooting first in the southern Colorado mining town of Ludlow on April 20, 1914, but by the next morning 20 people were dead, including two...
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Aug.05.2007
Published by San Francisco Chronicle
If Martelle's book, "Blood Passion," refuses to give a free pass to the Ludlow strikers, it is by no means a shill for management. The company hired hundreds of unsavory men who...
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About Scott
A freelance journalist and critic (former staff writer for the Los Angeles Times), Scott Martelle is the author of Detroit: A Biography, published in April 2012 by Chicago Review Press.
. He also is the author of The Fear Within: Spies, Commies and...