Thursday, February 23, 2006

Assassination Vacation

    Assasination Vacation is a book by Sarah Vowell in which she travels around the country researhing the assasinations of United States presidents Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley and James A. Garfield (via Wikipedia). I don't know if it is available already on the Malayisan local bookstore. One reviewer Jack Danson (Oklahoma City) commented this book on Amazon: Sarah Vowell has written an excellent book chronicling the various sites and curiousities involving the first three presidential assassinations. Many of the sites she writes about I have been to on my own "assasination vacations" and it is as if I have returned to these sites. Her writing is very engaging and entertaining. I would highly recommend this title to anyone not only interested in history but also good writing.

    It seems that herbook is set to be the bestseller. Decide to get your first glimple at book here at Assassination Vacation?

    Something more about Sarah Vowell via (wikipedia): she was born in Muskogee, Oklahoma. She earned a B.A. from Montana State University in 1993 and an M.A. at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996. Vowell received the Music Journalism Award in 1996.

    Vowell lives in New York City, cannot swim, is afraid of heights, and does not drive a car. She usually enlists the aid of her friends and family to drive her to plaques and graves when doing research. She suffers from celiac disease, in which the body has an auto-immune reaction to gluten. She's also an atheist.

    And she has a twin sister! :-)

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