The writer, NPR contributor and Incredibles star takes a typically humorous road trip through America looking for tourist attractions related to our first three assassinated presidents, Lincoln, Garfield and McKinley.
Critic Reviews
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Outstanding
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Publishers Weekly
This is history at its most morbid and most fascinating.
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Favorable
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San Francisco Chronicle Greg Beato
At times, though, she's too much the stand-up comedian, determined to punctuate every fact she exhumes with a verbal elbow in the ribs, even when the material would be better served without such efforts.
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Favorable
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The Globe And Mail [Toronto] Lionel Shriver
Her voice is energetic, jousting and dry. [30 Apr 2005, p.D10]
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Favorable
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The New York Times Book Review Bruce Handy
A learned, engagingly discursive, funny, sometimes even jolly ramble -- literally -- through the landscape of American presidential assassinations.
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Favorable
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PopMatters C.W. Thompson
Vowell's style is particularly engaging.
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Mixed
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The Onion A.V. Club Tasha Robinson
Like any detailed documentation of a private obsession, Assassination Vacation can seem a bit dull in the details, at least when Vowell herself doesn't openly show her enthusiasm. But when she does, that enthusiasm is infectious.
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Mixed
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Washington Post Catherine Tumber
Vowell's ambitions get the best of her, however, as she attempts to weigh in on the historical particulars of each assassination.
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