On Being Mad or Merely Angry: John W. Hinckley, Jr. and Other Dangerous People

by James W. Clarke

In American Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics (Princeton, 1981), James Clarke told the often bizarre stories of sixteen political murderers from the would-be assassin of Andrew Jackson in 1835 through the infamous Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray, and Sirhan Sirhan. The book's popular appeal was created by a mixture of the fascinating stories behind the assassination plots, Clarke's discovery of the four character types represented by these...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691078521
• ISBN13: 9780691078526
• Release Date: January 1990
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 168 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.7" x 8.7"