Assassination Vacation Audiobook (Free)

New York Occasions bestselling author of The Wordy Shipmates and contributor to NPR’s ‘This American Life’ Sarah Vowell embarks on the road visit to sites of politics violence, from Washington DC to Alaska, to raised understand our nation’s ever-evolving politics system and background.

Sarah Vowell exposes the glorious conundrums of American history and culture with wit, probity, and an irreverent sense of humor. With Assassination Vacation, she will take us on a road trip like no various other — a trip to about Assassination Vacation the pit halts of American political murder and through the myriad methods they have been employed for fun and income, for political and cultural benefit.

From Buffalo to Alaska, Washington towards the Dry Tortugas, Vowell trips locations immortalized and inspired with the spilling of politically important blood, reporting as she goes with her trademark blend of wisecracking laughter, remarkable credibility, and thought-provoking criticism. We find out about the jinx that was Robert Todd Lincoln (present at the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley) and witness the politicking that proceeded to go into the making of the Lincoln Memorial. The resulting narrative is a lot a lot more than an entertaining and educational travelogue — it is the troubling and fascinating tale of how American death continues to be manipulated by well-known culture, including books, structures, sculpture, and — the author’s preferred — historical tourism. Though the styles of loss and violence are explored and we make detours to observe how the Republican Party became the Republican Party, there are all types of lighter diversions on the way into the lives of the three presidents and their assassins, including mummies, present tunes, mean-spirited totem poles, and a nineteenth-century biblical sex cult.