Political Murder: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism from Tyrannicide to Terrorism

by Franklin L. Ford

Book Overview

Franklin Ford's unprecedented inquiry into assassination traverses civilizations, cultures, religions, and modes of social behavior to locate the common threads of this often mysterious and always shocking phenomenon.

Are there similarities between the killings of the Gracchi brothers and the Kennedy brothers? Does the Baader-Meinhof terrorist gang have roots in the rightist murder teams of Weimar Germany? Was political context as important...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674686365
• ISBN13: 9780674686366
• Release Date: January 1987
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 460 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.2" x 9.1"