Zyla Courtney từ Cam, Dursley, Gloucestershire , UK

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05/18/2024

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Zyla Courtney Sách lại (10)

2018-06-12 14:30

Tìm Hiểu Phả Ký & Phương Pháp Lập Gia Phả Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn

Sách được viết bởi Bởi: Trịnh Hoành

This is one of the handful of books I've ever bought in my entire life after reading a review in the newspaper. (The others on that short list include "The Lovely Bones," "The Secret Life of Bees," "A G-Man's Life," and a lot of Oprah-type chick stuff.) I was working for Artists Rep at the time and we were in pre-production for "Assassins," a Sondheim musical about a ragtag band of misfits made up of everyone who's ever assassinated, or tried to assassinate, a U.S. president - the same ragtag band of misfits, and then some, brought to life by Vowell in this book. Coincidentally, the book opens with Vowell at a theater festival waxing romantic about the musical "Assassins", to the horror of the conservative old couples staying at the bed and breakfast with her. She focuses on the Big Three - John Wilkes Booth (Lincoln), Leon Czolgosz (William McKinley), and Charles Guiteau (James Garfield), and all their many accomplices, friends, enemies, bemused family members, and acquaintances who add color and weirdness to their stories. Guiteau was a member of an upstate New York sex cult. Czolgosz was in love with the feminist revolutionary Emma Goldman. Booth and Lincoln's son were in love with the same woman. As Vowell travels around the country to bizarre historical landmarks, shocking and horrifying more sedate tourists with her bloodthirsty enthusiasm for gory relics, and dragging along bored friends and relatives to overwhelm them with trivia, the sheer freaky weirdness of our country's history comes vividly and crazily to life.

Người đọc Zyla Courtney từ Cam, Dursley, Gloucestershire , UK

Người dùng coi những cuốn sách này là thú vị nhất trong năm 2017-2018, ban biên tập của cổng thông tin "Thư viện Sách hướng dẫn" khuyến cáo rằng tất cả các độc giả sẽ làm quen với văn học này.