Assassination vacation
Author:
Publisher:
Simon & Schuster Audio
Pub. Date:
2005
Language:
English
Accelerated Reader:
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 13
Description
New York Times bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR's "This American Life" Sarah Vowell embarks on a road trip to sites of political violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to better understand our nation's ever-evolving political system and history.Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. 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 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 important 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 making of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting narrative is much more than an entertaining and informative travelogue — it is the disturbing and fascinating story of how American death has been manipulated by popular culture, including literature, architecture, sculpture, and — the author's favorite — historical 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.
Subjects
Subjects
Assassination
Assassins
Assassins -- Homes and haunts -- United States
Assassins -- United States -- Biography
Description and travel
Historic sites
Historic sites -- United States
History, Local
Homes and haunts
Nonfiction
Presidents
Presidents -- Assassination -- United States
Presidents -- Homes and haunts -- United States
Presidents -- United States -- Biography
Sociology
Travel
United States -- Description and travel
United States -- History, Local
Vowell, Sarah
Vowell, Sarah, -- 1969- -- Travel -- United States
Assassins
Assassins -- Homes and haunts -- United States
Assassins -- United States -- Biography
Description and travel
Historic sites
Historic sites -- United States
History, Local
Homes and haunts
Nonfiction
Presidents
Presidents -- Assassination -- United States
Presidents -- Homes and haunts -- United States
Presidents -- United States -- Biography
Sociology
Travel
United States -- Description and travel
United States -- History, Local
Vowell, Sarah
Vowell, Sarah, -- 1969- -- Travel -- United States
More Details
ISBN:
9780743260039
9780743590297
9780743590297
Accelerated Reader:
UG
Level 8.6, 13 Points
Level 8.6, 13 Points
Staff View
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topic_facet | Assassination Assassins Description and travel Historic sites History, Local Homes and haunts Nonfiction Presidents Sociology Travel Vowell, Sarah |