Assassination Vacation Explained

Assassination Vacation
Author:	Sarah Vowell
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.

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

See also

• Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
• Assassination of James A. Garfield
• Assassination of William McKinley

External links

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

Notes and References

1. News: New York Times Review of "Assassination Vacation" . 2011-12-20 . The New York Times . Richard B. . Woodward . 2005-05-15.
2. Book: Simon & Schuster's "Assassination Vacation" Promo page. 4 April 2005 . 9780743550291 . 2011-12-20.
3. Book: Simon & Schuster's Assassination Vacation Audio Book Promo page. 6 February 2006 . 9780743260046 . 2011-12-20 . Vowell . Sarah . Simon & Schuster .