assassination

The Death of a President: November 20-November 25, 1963 | William Manchester

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⭐️⭐️⭐️ Read this to round out my Kennedy deep dive. It was, of course, super interesting at times, but insanely long for a book covering a six day period. I slogged through.

kspenmoll History channel has a Kennedy documentary we have been watching. 2mo

britt_brooke @kspenmoll I may have to check that out - thanks! 2mo

dabbe In your deep drive, did you have a favorite? 🤩 2mo

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britt_brooke @dabbe A tie between Ask Not and Jackie! 😄 2mo

dabbe @britt_brooke I think a deep dive awaits me, too. I have always been fascinated with the Kennedys--even going to Hyannis Port just to see their compound from a distance. Thanks for the recs! #stacked 🖤🩶🖤 2mo

britt_brooke @dabbe They‘re a fascinating lot! 2mo

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bunneeboy

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Killer | James L. Swanson

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Fascinating!

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Bigwig

Mortal Error: The Shot That Killed JFK | Bonar Menninger

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This book makes one heck of a convincing case that the “fatal” JFK shot was the result of a secret service accidental discharge in Dealey Plaza. I checked it out because the author was a lifelong ballistics expert who spent much of his life trying to prove the Warren Commission right…only to finally determine that the evidence pointed to a horrible accident (amidst Oswald‘s attack) that was hushed up to avoid loss of institutional confidence.

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tokorowilliamwallace

Manhunt: The 12-Day Chase to Catch Lincoln's Killer | James L. Swanson

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Great fun. I was babbling on about this at one point near 40-50% the way through like I was about Poor Things. I did not expect to like it this much.

TieDyeDude The author did an excellent job with this. I have Bloody Crimes, a companion/sequel, but I haven't read it yet. 7mo

tokorowilliamwallace Yes, it was a compelling narrative by audio. I was struck by the hysteria and mob the assassination caused in Washington. John Wilkes Booth was kind of both a delusional and tragic, cursed figure from what he considered himself and realized. It has me interested in the book on the hunt for the Confederate president and the conspiracy to kidnap the president, the latter of which is available for sale at my library. 7mo

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Amiable

Hellhound on His Trail: The Electrifying Account of the Largest Manhunt in American History | Hampton Sides

I adore good narrative nonfiction, so picking only 3 is very difficult! So I‘m going to cheat. 😀

1. Tagged
2. “And the Band Played On”
3. “My Own Country: A Doctor‘s Story”
4. “The Worst Hard Time: The Untold Story of Those Who Survived the Great American Dust Bowl”
5. “Eleni”

@dabbe #ThreeListThursday

TheBookHippie Oh #2 for sure!!! 9mo

AmyG #2 is a great book! Forgot about that one. 9mo

dabbe Whew! You gave me some great ones to look into! Thanks for sharing! 💚💙💚 9mo

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kspenmoll Agree with you @TheBookHippie @AmyG about #2 9mo

monalyisha Definitely almost chose five, too. Should‘ve waited until tomorrow & tagged it #FLF. 😂 9mo

Amiable @monalyisha I could have kept going! 😀 9mo

monalyisha @Amiable Oh, I know. I‘m still tempted to just make another one. 🙈 9mo

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Awk_Word_Smith

Assassination Vacation | Sarah Vowell

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REREAD: Sarah Vowell is a Gen X historian with a Gen X wit, which is to say this book is a dark, wisecracking comedic take on U.S. history. While Vowell very much shows her personal interest in the Lincoln assassination, she also reminds us that Garfield and McKinley were assassinated as well, you know. And one of the assassins even had ties to a 19th Century biblical sex cult-turned-kitchenwares company. But we already knew that. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Librarybelle This one is my favorite by her! 9mo

Awk_Word_Smith @Librarybelle Amen! It was definitely the most Gen X snarky. And as a Gen Xer, I hardily approve. 9mo

Librarybelle I‘m one of those “millennials” that just missed the Gen X cutoff and better identify with the X‘ers than the millennials. Give me snarkiness any day! 😂 9mo

Awk_Word_Smith @Librarybelle honorary Gen X 🙌 9mo

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Itchyfeetreader

The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar | Robert Alexander

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My #bookedintime for the Russian revolution tells us little of the revolution but a good deal on the minutiae of the last days & weeks of the Romanov‘s. Clearly a passion project of research this is only a soft pick for me. the research sang louder than plot or character - this may be because the set up of the novel is a man in his 90s recording his memories of something that happened in his teens but the story loosing something in his voice