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Assassination Vacation Audio Book
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Assassination Vacation
Author/Reader:
Sarah Vowell
Sarah Vowell
Take a quirky road trip with this cultural critic and radio commentator: a journey to the pit stops of political murder, where she investigates their remarkable resonance and lessons. Winner of a 2005 Publishers Weekly Listen Up award. Audie Award finalist. "Engaging... Audiobook listeners get serious bang for their buck, including guest appearances by Stephen King (as Lincoln), Jon Stewart, Conan O'Brien, and Eric Bogosian, among others."—AudioFile
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Publish Date: 03/07/2005
ISBN: 9780743540056
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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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