Assassination Vacation is a 2005 book by Sarah Vowell, in which she travels around the United States researching the assassinations of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and William McKinley. While most of the book is devoted to facts about the assassinated presidents and the men who would murder them, Vowell intersperses anecdotes of her self-proclaimed "pilgrimage" of presidential assassinations, including a production of the 1990 musical Assassins.
Audiobook
An abridged audiobook was released by Simon & Schuster on March 29, 2005. It contained an ensemble cast, and original music was composed by Michael Giacchino. In order of appearance, the cast was:
Conan O'Brien as Robert Todd Lincoln
Eric Bogosian as John Wilkes Booth
Stephen King as Abraham Lincoln
Dave Eggers as Mike Ryan
Catherine Keener as Gretchen Worden
Jon Stewart as James A. Garfield
Tony Kushner as John Humphrey Noyes
Brad Bird as Charles Guiteau and Emma Goldman
Daniel Handler as William McKinley
Greg Giraldo as Theodore Roosevelt
David Rakoff as Leon Czolgosz