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Assassination Vacation

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.

Author

English

2005

as Robert Todd Lincoln

Conan O'Brien

as John Wilkes Booth

Eric Bogosian

as Abraham Lincoln

Stephen King

as Mike Ryan

Dave Eggers

as Gretchen Worden

Catherine Keener

as James A. Garfield

Jon Stewart

as John Humphrey Noyes

Tony Kushner

as Charles Guiteau and Emma Goldman

Brad Bird

as William McKinley

Daniel Handler

as Theodore Roosevelt

Greg Giraldo

as Leon Czolgosz

David Rakoff

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:

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Assassination of James A. Garfield

Assassination of William McKinley

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