PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
As a correspondent for The Wall Street Journal and Reuters news agency, Scott Miller spent nearly two decades in Asia and Europe, reporting from more than twenty-five countries. His articles—covering fields as varied as the Japanese economic collapse, the birth of a single European currency, French culinary traditions, and competitive speed knitting—have also appeared in The Washington Post and the Far Eastern Economic Review, among others. He has been a contributor to CNBC and Britain’s Sky News. Miller holds a master’s degree in international relations from the University of Cambridge and now lives in Seattle with his wife and two daughters.
[A] panoramic tour de force . . . Miller has a good eye, trained by years of journalism, for telling details and enriching anecdotes. --The Washington Independent Review of Books<br> <br> Even without the intrinsic draw of the 1901 presidential assassination that shapes its pages, Scott Miller's The President and the Assassin [is] absorbing reading. . . . What makes the book compelling is [that] so many circumstances and events of the earlier time have parallels in our own. -- The Oregonian <br> <br> A marvelous work of history, wonderfully written. --Fareed Zakaria, author of The Post-American World <br> <br> A real triumph. -- BookPage <br> <br> Fast-moving and richly detailed. -- The Buffalo News <br> <br> [A] compelling read. -- The Boston Globe <br> <br>One of Newsweek 's 10 Must-Read Summer Books<br><br><br> From the Hardcover edition.
