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. 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, including a production of the 1990 musical Assassins.

Audiobook

An abridged audiobook was released by Simon & Schuster on March 29, 2005. It contained a large cast of readers, and original music was composed by Michael Giacchino. In order of appearance, the cast was:

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Conan O'Brien as Robert Todd Lincoln

Eric Bogosian as John Wilkes Booth

Stephen King as Abraham Lincoln

Dave Eggers as Mike Ryan

Catherine Keener as Gretchen Worden

Jon Stewart as James A. Garfield

Tony Kushner as John Humphrey Noyes

Brad Bird as Charles Guiteau and Emma Goldman

Daniel Handler as William McKinley

Greg Giraldo as Theodore Roosevelt

David Rakoff as Leon Czolgosz

See also

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Assassination of James A. Garfield

Assassination of William McKinley

References

External links

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

2005 non-fiction books

2005 audio plays

Books by Sarah Vowell

Works about assassinations in the United States

Books about Abraham Lincoln

Books about William McKinley

Books about Theodore Roosevelt

Books about James A. Garfield

Assassination of James A. Garfield

Assassination of William McKinley

Assassination of Abraham Lincoln

Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln

Cultural depictions of James A. Garfield

Cultural depictions of William McKinley

Cultural depictions of John Wilkes Booth

Cultural depictions of Theodore Roosevelt

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