A fun and pretty quick read. Vowell entertainingly brings the reader along with her peculiar obsession with the first three presidential assassinations and all the plaques, statues, museums, and oddities you can see— big and small— connected to them. A great mix of historical education with Vowell’s fun and self-proclaimed ramblings on the topic. That it was published in 2005 and she spends time begroaning the W. Bush years and how that worst ever Administration was bringing the decline of democracy seems almost quaint to read in the 2020s!

In the end, I learned a bit and I was entertained. Hard to ask for more.