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- ISBN13: 9780743260046
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Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Trip, she takes us on a road trip like no additional — a journey to the pit stops of American political murder and through the heap ways they have been used for fun and profit, for political and cultural advantage.
From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell visits locations immortalized and influenced by the spilling of politically vital blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism. We learn about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went into the building of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting narrative is much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue — it is the disturbing and fascinating tale of how American death has been manipulated by well loved culture, including literature, architecture, monument, and — the leader’s favorite — past tourism. Though the themes of loss and violence are explored and we make detours to see how the Republican Party became the Republican Party, there are all kinds of lighter diversions along the way into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, show tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult.
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Let’s see…a name with such a case of BDS (Bush Derangement Syndrome) that she has distress really writing his name…”the current president, titter, titter”, who takes a vaction to revisit the assassinations of 3 Republican presidents. Hmmm…I know there’s a tie here somewhere.
This is what passes for a commentator on NPR these days? The opening bit, where she’s sitting in a B&B and nattering on and on as her fellow guests edge toward the door (more or less) sort of wraps it up reasonably nicely.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
I’ve ongoing this book a few times and just can’t get into it.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Frankly I am disappointed.
When I first read about Sarah Vowell’s book on visiting the assassination and burial sites of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley and Kennedy, I was reasonably keen to get a copy. I have many books on the murder of Abraham Lincoln and it is an episode of American History that regularly brings tears to my eyes. I too have read much on McKinley and his assassination, and have personnally visited the tombs of Presidents Lincoln and Kennedy in my lifetime.
But when I read Ms. Vowell’s comparison of Theodore Roosevelt to Paul Wolfowitz, and in a manner disparaging to both gentleman, I quickly place the book down and walked away. It is one thing to write a emotive, pathos-filled work on the assassination of four of our most beloved Presidents (whether or not you liked them), it is reasonably another to place your own political perspective in such a work. In her rage at the U.S. War in Iraq – and taking a smack at the choice to go to war with Spain in 1898, Ms. Vowell has chosen the deplorable latter over what could have been a major past accomplishment.
The reasons why we went to war with Spain were honorable ones, whether or not the U.S.S. Maine was sunk by the Spaniards. Did Ms. Vowell ever hear of the “Virginius”? or of Weyler and the Concentration Camps??? She even takes a smack at the heroism of the Rough Riders!!!
Buy the Bishop and Manchester books on the Lincoln and Kennedy assassinations, or Margaret Leach’s insightful bio of McKinley.
By far the best book on the assassination Lincoln besides the works written by Jim Bishop and Carl Sandburg is the pictorial history -”Twenty Days” by the Kunhardts. Place your shekels down on it – not on some Lefty’s complaints-filled tourguide…
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
Out of the many thousands of books I have read, there have only been two that I have establish that I was sorry I wasted my time on. This is one of them.
I had high hopes of learning about the small known facts behind the assassinations of our Presidents, as a replacement for I’m treated to a regurgitation of whining liberal litany of what is incorrect with the current administration. Vowell goes so far as to identify with past Presidential assassins because of her same frustration with George W. Bush. Then, she does a not-so-convincing job to state that she is not advocating assassinating the current President, even building a smart comment to an “FBI agent” that might be reading to investigate.
Vowell’s nonstop opinions about current events throughout the book completely disrupted the flow. If you are looking for yet another book by a liberal leader bemoaning current events and blaming the fall of society on the Republican Party, this is your book. If you were looking to learn something about history, don’t bother. Your time would be better spent elsewhere.
Reader’s Rating: 1 / 5
After seeing Sarah Vowell on a recent David Letterman show I was amused by the leader’s take on political assassinations throughout American history. Odd past facts from American history have permanently interested me, and I was excited to learn more about this book. I thought the audio version would be a fantastic buy for my iPod, so I listened to a clip of Assassination Trip on iTunes and was prepared to make the buy. But when I listened to another audio clip on Audible.com’s website, I was disappointed to hear that it was just another political book with more Bush bashing. The book was soon deleted from my shopping cart on iTunes. I will be glad when our country gets over the mean political mood we are currently in and we get back to where we were before the recent Presidential elections. I reflect Sarah Vowell’s book would have been be a amusing read [listen], but the political commentary ruined it for me.
Reader’s Rating: 3 / 5