Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for public radio's This American Life and has written for Time, Esquire, GQ, Spin, Salon, McSweeneys, The Village Voice, and the Los Angeles Times. She is the author of Radio On, Take the Cannoli, and The Partly Cloudy Patriot. She lives in New York City.
"A learned, engagingly discursive, funny, sometimes even jolly
ramble -- literally -- through the landscape of American
presidential assassinations...Vowell makes an excellent traveling
companion, what with her rare combination of erudition and cheek."
-- Bruce Handy, The New York Times Book Review
"[Vowell's] gift is one of cosmic inclusion -- allowing the natural
collision of intellect and personality, rigorous research, and
generational quirks." -- Joan Anderman, The Boston Globe
"A learned, engagingly discursive, funny, sometimes even jolly
ramble -- literally -- through the landscape of American
presidential assassinations...Vowell makes an excellent traveling
companion, what with her rare combination of erudition and cheek."
-- Bruce Handy, The New York Times Book Review
"[Vowell's] gift is one of cosmic inclusion -- allowing the natural
collision of intellect and personality, rigorous research, and
generational quirks." -- Joan Anderman, The Boston Globe
Vowell visits assassination sites throughout the country to consider how political violence gets manipulated. With a 13-city tour including some of the stops along her way? Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.
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