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Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (2006, Paperback, Reprint) 
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (2006, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell (2006, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Sarah Vowell
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication Date: 2006-01-31
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 074326004X
ISBN-13: 9780743260046
Product ID: EPID48266433
Description: Quirky essayist Sarah Vowell, known both for her pieces on NPR's "This American Life" and her star turn voicing teen superhero Violet in the animated Pixar blockbuster THE INCREDIBLES, waxes both witty and rhapsodic in this monumentally ...
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Synopsis
Quirky essayist Sarah Vowell, known both for her pieces on NPR's "This American Life" and her star turn voicing teen superhero Violet in the animated Pixar blockbuster THE INCREDIBLES, waxes both witty and rhapsodic in this monumentally obsessive travelogue chronicling her so-called pilgrimage to various places related to the first three assassinations of American presidents (Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley). From the museum housing Lincoln's skull fragments to James Garfield's favorite office armchair to the apartment building of anarchist Emma Goldman (falsely implicated in McKinley's assassination), no site, major or minor, is left unvisited. Along the way, Vowell shares various tidbits of history related to the three presidencies and their abrupt endings, including the career of Lincoln's eldest son, Robert Todd Lincoln, whom she refers to variously as the "jinxed Zelig of doom," and "Jinxy McDeath," due to his misfortune of being in close proximity to all three of those assassinations.

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Publication Date:2006-01-31
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:258 pages
Height:8.3 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:8.8 oz

Publisher's Note
A tour of key historic sites in America where incidents of political violence have occurred reveals lesser-known points of interest pertaining to each and shares information about how history has been shaped by popular culture and tourism. By the author of The Partly Cloudy Patriot.

Industry Reviews
"[W]acky, weirdly enthralling....This is history at its most morbid and most fascinating." (starred review)
Publishers Weekly (04/04/2005)

"[A] learned, engagingly discursive, funny, sometimes even jolly ramble--literally--through the landscape of American presidential assassinations....Vowell makes an excellent traveling companion, what with her rare combination of erudition and cheek....[T]his book is an often astounding compendium of forgotten history and trivia."
New York Times Book Review - Bruce Handy (05/08/2005)

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