Assassination Book Reviews Samples For Students

Section I: progressive review of JFK and the Unspeakable: Why He died and why it Matters

It was anthropologist Mary Douglas who observed that Human is at heart, creatures of denial, they crave for stability especially when their notions are threatened, rearrange the way they conceive issues and deny the challenges. In her book, JFK and the unspeakable: Why He Died and Why It Matter, Douglas offers an incisive and searing diagnosis of the various ills that marked the death of once an American icon and human activist John F. Kennedy. In an articulate voice, the well known anthologist, advocate and writer in different universities offers a compressive scanning on the episodes that marked the termination ...

Today, there is a tremendous and an apparently overwhelming amount of literature about Lincoln’s assassination. Even then, James L. Swanson’s “Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase for Lincoln's Killer” does not induce skepticism among those who are interested in knowing more about this tragic event in American history because he offers them something new. In fact, Swanson approaches this material with a rationally new angle. Many Americans are under the misconception that John Wilkes Booth, a successful actor, was devastated by the victory of the Union in the Civil War and assassinated Lincoln, who had been elected as the U.S. president for ...

The main idea of the book was to provide an alluring narrative of the outrageous historical events encompassing the assassination of John F. Kennedy in an entertaining and informative way. “Killing Kennedy” is a follow-up of Bill O’reilly’s bestselling book Killing Lincoln. In chronological order, O’reilly and Dugard recall how Kennedy from youthful elite made the journey to become the President of the United States. Kennedy’s biography in the book is infused with the movements of Lee Harvey Oswald, the accused assassin. The story is captivating, and according to the authors the Camelot myth frequently falsified ...

‘The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama’

The Long Sixties: From 1960 to Barack Obama is a book set in the current historical setting but dating its foundation in the 1960. The book is a political satire that displays the origin and growth of democracy in terms of division and selection of ruling parties. Hayden creates a political picture that may shape the political perception of the current generation. In his book he challenges the current generation to appreciate the political struggles in the 1960’s and recognize the advantages of these efforts. Hayden also displays an old political picture that was never aware of democracy and free will. ...

Che Guevara: A Revolutionary Life. By Author, Anderson, Jon L.
Anderson Jon evokes Che Guevara’s intricate character in describing his role and myth, in one of the darkest periods of the cold war. Notably, the book completes the heroic saga of an outstanding life. Anderson begins by breaking the account of the entire event, particularly after Che’s body was secretly hidden after his assassination in Bolivia in 1967. He gives an account of how Che’s body was discovered, and brought back to Cuba after thirty years of murder. He further analyzes how Che’s body ...

Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book “Team of Rivals” is such a wonderful except at the presidential level. Goodwin allows the reader to understand the political rivalry that normally occurs in the political scene by specifically analyzing how President Abraham Lincoln was able to put together his team. She clearly explains to the public that cabinet plays a key leadership role of the country while the president is just the one responsible and if controlled well it can establish a better working relationship (Doris, 2011 p. 6).

Goodwin explains further that Lincoln with his good intention appointed the able men to the ...

The minds of assassins generally teem with oddities. For example, Leon Czolgosz, the assassin of President William McKinley, was so devoted to his anarchist principles that he refused to talk to anyone whom he perceived to be an authority figure in the aftermath of the assassination. This included his court-appointed attorneys and the judge at his trial, which led to his attorneys attempting to secure a finding of insanity but ended up exasperating the jury, which only required an hour of deliberations to find him guilty of first-degree murder and sentence him to the electric chair. When he finally said ...

In "Confessions of an Economic Hitman," John Perkins tells the story about how he and others like him were able to have a huge impact on the world today in ways that many of the elite in society would rather keep secret. The story involves a lot of deceit, murderers, and traitors who are motivated by greed and power. Perkins gives details on how strong countries have the power to exploit another and even goes so far as to influence their politics. He explains how some countries are willing to go to extremes such as robbing another country of their natural resources, ...

Book Review: Destiny of the Republic

Candice, Millard. Destiny of the Republic: A Tale of Madness, Medicine, and the Murder of a President. New York: Random House, 2011.

Introduction

In both her books that she has written about American presidents, Candice Millard has concentrated on historical events that other authors have largely overlooked. Candice Millard’s Destiny of the Republic, follows her superb first book, River of Doubt (2005). She conduct the same interesting research to the life and assassination of Garfield, the same way she did to Theodore Roosevelt’s exploration of more than a thousand unknown and potentially lethal river miles in Brazil. Candice Millard is a ...

Introduction

“The Looming Tower: Al Qaeda and the Road to 9/11” is a Pulitzer Prize-winning book for general nonfiction by American author Lawrence Wright. The book was published in the year 2006, five years after the disastrous 9/11 attacks of 2001. Amongst all of Wright’s publications, this book has been the most captivating and the quick seller of its time. It provides a historical and a detailed insight into the back ground of the terrorist organization Al-Qaeda, founded by Osama Bin Laden and his companions. What was the background of these people, how they have spent their childhood and more importantly how ...

The Dag Hammarskjöld Foundation supports a “Development Dialogue” series in order to encourage and promote dialogue, communication and debate on subjects between North and South global divisions. In June 2012 the Foundation published a book edited by the Civil Society Reflection Group on Global Development Perspectives titled No Future without Justice. The civil society reflection group was established in the fall of 2010 and is comprised of members of a variety of civil society organizations (CSOs). At first the group came together informally in order to discuss the numerous global crises that are happening simultaneously. By November of 2010 the group ...