Vowell, Sarah. Assassination vacation. New York: Simon and Schuster, 2005. ISBN 0-7432-6003-1.

Summary: An intelligent, well-informed, sensitive writer with a slightly morbid interest in Presidential assassinations visits a lot of historical sites associated with the assassinations of Abraham Lincoln, James Garfield, and William McKinley, remembering the related historical events and simultaneously commenting on the uneven and bizarre ways in which we commemorate them. She also brings in some commentary on contemporary politics, including an excellent and memorable analogy, drawn in considerable detail, between the American occupation of the Philippines after the Spanish-American war and the current American occupation of Iraq.