Assassination Vacation

Assassination Vacation by Sarah Vowell

Reading Level: 8.6

AR Points: 13

Sarah Vowell has written a witty, informative travel guide reflecting every museum, plaque, and historic site related to presidential assassinations.  She also describes the political & historical backgrounds that led up to each death, plus revealing what happens after to the assassins & their accomplices.

The author is creepily, yet delightfully, obsessed with the circumstances surrounding presidential assassinations.  She drags friends, her sister, and even her young nephew on her pilgrimages of historical death.  Again, what does is say about me that I LOVED this book?  I guess it shows that I'm a history nut, as well as a morbid person, which is absolutely true.  I would love to have this woman as my friend, traveling the East & Midwest in search of any plaque commemorating Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and their respective assassins. ***** 5 Funereal Stars