Assassination Vacation

Assassination Vacation
Author	Sarah Vowell
Language	English
Published	2005
Publisher	Simon & Schuster
Publication place	United States

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.

Audiobook

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:

Conan O'Brien as Robert Todd Lincoln
Eric Bogosian as John Wilkes Booth
Stephen King as Abraham Lincoln
Dave Eggers as Mike Ryan
Catherine Keener as Gretchen Worden
Jon Stewart as James A. Garfield
Tony Kushner as John Humphrey Noyes
Brad Bird as Charles Guiteau and Emma Goldman
Daniel Handler as William McKinley
Greg Giraldo as Theodore Roosevelt
David Rakoff as Leon Czolgosz

References

^ Woodward, Richard B. (2005-05-15). "New York Times Review of "Assassination Vacation"". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
^ Simon & Schuster's "Assassination Vacation" Promo page. 4 April 2005. ISBN 9780743550291. Retrieved 2011-12-20.
^ Vowell, Sarah (6 February 2006). Simon & Schuster's Assassination Vacation Audio Book Promo page. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780743260046. Retrieved 2011-12-20.

External links

Book discussion on Assassination Vacation, C-SPAN, April 27, 2005

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[ref1-1] Woodward, Richard B. (2005-05-15). "New York Times Review of "Assassination Vacation"". The New York Times. Retrieved 2011-12-20.

[ref2-2] Simon & Schuster's "Assassination Vacation" Promo page. 4 April 2005. ISBN 9780743550291. Retrieved 2011-12-20.

[ref3-3] Vowell, Sarah (6 February 2006). Simon & Schuster's Assassination Vacation Audio Book Promo page. Simon & Schuster. ISBN 9780743260046. Retrieved 2011-12-20.

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