Description

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent spontaneity. With Assassination Vacation, she takes us on a road-trip like no other -- a journey to the pit-stops of American political murder and through the myriad ways they've 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 important blood, reporting as she complements her trademark mixture of wisecracking humor, remarkable honesty, and thought provoking critique. We find out about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that went in to the building of the Lincoln Memorial.