Assassination: The Politics of Murder

By Linda Laucella

Book Overview

Chronological almanac of assassinations from the slaying of king David to the assassination of Yitzhak Rabin, the Israeli prime minister. Each entry lists the target, the assassins, the historical... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1565656288
• ISBN13: 9781565656284
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary
• Length: 465 Pages
• Weight: 1.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.6" x 6.5" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Politics by yet another means

Very well documented account of assassinations throughout history, although there is more of an emphasis on the past century than other eras. Each assassination is presented in a (usually) tiny chapter with the life of the victim, the life of the assassin, and the ramifications of the victim's demise. What I liked best was the lives and motivations of the assassins themselves, since as the previous reviewer said not all of them are crazy. I generally prefered reading about the pre-20th century assassinations, but that's probably because I enjoy history too much. Another thing I liked about the book is that you get a brief history of early 20th century Mexico, since nearly all the leaders of the Mexican civil war were assassinating each other. The only downside to me is that Laucella tends to dwell on certain assassinations much longer than others. There may be 3 pages on the co-founder of the Guiness Book of World Records but there is 40 on Medgar Evers. I'm also not sure I liked the "assassination attempts". They weren't actually assassinated, why are they here?But on the whole I would recommend this book to anyone interested enough in the grisly history of a darker side of politics.