Age of Assassins: The Loners, Idealists and Fanatics Who Conspired to Change the World

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Michael Newton

Age of Assassins

The Loners, Idealists and Fanatics Who Conspired to Change the World

Michael Newton

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English

Faber & Faber
03 October 2013

General & world history; Military history; Politics & government; Political assassinations

These were the crimes that were meant to change the world, and sometimes did. The book connects the killing of the Kennedys or the murder that sparked the First World War with less well-known stories, such as the Berlin shooting of an instigator of the Armenian genocide or the attack on an American 'robber baron'. Taking in Malcolm X and Queen Victoria, Adolf Hitler and Andy Warhol, Charles Manson and Emma Goldman, Tsars, Presidents, and pop stars, Age of Assassins traces the process that turned thought into action and murder into an icon.

In tackling the history of political violence, the book is unique in its range and attention to detail, summoning up an age of assassination that is far from over.

By: Michael Newton
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Main
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 40mm
Weight: 499g
ISBN: 9780571220458
ISBN 10: 0571220452
Pages: 640
Publication Date: 03 October 2013
Recommended Age: From 0 to 0 years
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Out of Print

Michael Newton is the author of Savage Girls and Wild Boys. He has written a book on Kind Hearts and Coronets for the BFI Film Classics series and has also edited Joseph Conrad's The Secret Agent (Penguin Classics), Edmund Gosse's Father and Son (Oxford World Classics) and The Penguin Book of Ghost Stories. He has taught at UCL, Central Saint Martins College of Art, and Princeton University; he now works at the University of Leiden.