Assassination
A History of Political Murder
Politics
Crime
General History
Lindsay Porter
Overlook 2010
Hardback 192 pages Illustrated 260x190mm
1590203488 | 9781590203484 |  Product code: 86498  
Covering world-changing political murders from Julius Caesar and Thomas Beckett to JFK, Benazir Bhutto and today's state-sanctioned 'decapitation strikes', Porter uses history's most infamous assassinations to explore the changing attitudes and justifications of assassins. She also looks at paintings, drawings and archival documents which illustrate how the popular and artistic imagination has responded to this disquieting and chillingly effective political tool to remove 'tyrants' or the symbols of societies the assassins were trying to overthrow. Felt-tip mark on lower trimmed edge; off-mint.
 
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