Author | Sarah Vowell |
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Country | United States |
Language | English |
Published | 2005 |
Publisher | Simon & Schuster |
Assassination Vacation is a 2005 book by Sarah Vowell, in which she travels around the United States researching the assassinations of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and William McKinley. [1] While most of the book is devoted to facts about the assassinated presidents and the men who would murder them, Vowell intersperses anecdotes of her self-proclaimed " pilgrimage" of presidential assassinations, [2] including a production of the 1990 musical Assassins.
An abridged audiobook was released by Simon & Schuster on March 29, 2005. [3] It contained a large cast of readers, and original music was composed by Michael Giacchino. In order of appearance, the cast was: