Assassination Vacation
Assassination Vacation - Sarah Vowell
Good. Hubby's pick. Vowell seeks out historical plaques, museums, monuments, locales, etc. that figured into the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. For me the best part was when she quoted Johnny Cash.
As Johnny Cash put it about how his Garfield assassination ballad went over at Carnegie Hall in 1962, "I did 'Mr. Garfield,' which isn't very funny if you're not on the right wavelength, and nobody was."
The weird thing is, I love singing along to 'Mr. Garfield', and I only find it funny when the president starts talking to his wife. Does that mean I'm not on Johnny Cash's (old) wavelength???
Anyway, this book is one of those 'things they didn't teach you in school' (especially Canadian schools) tomes, so if you're into that, you'll like it.
July 2006.
Good. Hubby's pick. Vowell seeks out historical plaques, museums, monuments, locales, etc. that figured into the assassinations of Presidents Lincoln, Garfield, and McKinley. For me the best part was when she quoted Johnny Cash.
As Johnny Cash put it about how his Garfield assassination ballad went over at Carnegie Hall in 1962, "I did 'Mr. Garfield,' which isn't very funny if you're not on the right wavelength, and nobody was."
The weird thing is, I love singing along to 'Mr. Garfield', and I only find it funny when the president starts talking to his wife. Does that mean I'm not on Johnny Cash's (old) wavelength???
Anyway, this book is one of those 'things they didn't teach you in school' (especially Canadian schools) tomes, so if you're into that, you'll like it.
July 2006.
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