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Transporting us from Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to Key West, Vowell has crafted a narrative that is much more than a historical travelogue - it is the disturbing and mesmerising story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including film, literature, and - the author's favourite - historical tourism. Skilfully belying the undercurrents of loss and violence that course through her journey, Vowell injects a range of lighter detours along the way, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult - and exactly how Lincoln's Republican Party became Bush's Republican Party. Assassination Vacation is a fascinating, informative, and richly entertaining look at the myriad ways in which political assassinations have altered and shaped our nation's history.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Social services & welfare, criminology Crime & criminology

• Full title: Assassination Vacation
• Author: Sarah Vowell
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 272
• EAN: 9780743260046
• ISBN: 074326004X
• ID: 04125620
• Publisher: Harper Collins Publishers
• Weight: 249 g
• Dimensions: 215 × 142 × 16 mm
• Date of publishing: 31. December 2005

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