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Simon & Schuster. 1 Paperback(s), 2006. so. Book Condition: New. Before she gave us , took a rather odd vacation, visiting sites associated with the assassinations of presidents , James Garfield, and William McKinley, and seeing how those sites have been used for profit, entertainment, or political advantage. From Bualo to Alaska, Washington to the Dry Tortugas, Vowell guides us with her usual blend of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought-provoking criticism; we learn, for example, about the jinx that was , who was present at all three assassinations, and witness the politicking that went into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. "A learned, engagingly discursive, funny, sometimes even jolly rambleliterallythrough the landscape of American presidential assassinations.Vowell makes an excellent traveling companion, what with her rare combination of erudition and cheek."NYTBR"What do you get when a woman who's obsessed with death and U.S. history goes on vacation? This wacky, weirdly enthralling exploration of the first three presidential assassinations. Vowell, a contributor to NPR's This American Life and the voice of teenage superhero Violet Parr in The Incredibles, takes readers on a pilgrimage of sorts to the sites and monuments that pay homage to Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley, visiting everything from grave sites and simple plaques (like the one in Bualo that marks the place where McKinley was shot) to places like the National Museum of Health and Medicine, where fragments of Lincoln's skull are on display. Readers learn not only about how Garfield found himself caught between the Stalwarts and the Half-Breeds, bitterly divided factions of the Republican party, but how his assassin, Charles Guiteau, a supporter of the Stalwarts and an occasional member of the Oneida Community, 'was the one guy in a free love commune who could not get laid.' Vowell...

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