1st Edition
Defining Danger American Assassins and the New Domestic Terrorists
By James W. Clarke
Copyright 2012
446 Pages
by
Routledge
446 Pages
by
Routledge
446 Pages
by
Routledge
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Since 1789, when George Washington became the first president of the United States, forty-three men have held the nation's highest office. Four were killed by assassins,and serious attempts were made on the lives of eight others.Add to that list Martin Luther King, Jr. and Malcolm X,and it is reasonable to conclude that political prominence in the U.S. entails grave risks. In Defining Danger ,... Read more
1: On Being Mad or Merely Angry; 1: Type I; 2: Type I—Region and Class: John Wilkes Booth and Leon F. Czolgosz; 3: Type I—Nationalism: Oscar Collazo, Griselio Torresola, and Sirhan Bishara Sirhan; 2: Type II; 4: Type II—Rejection Lee Harvey Oswald and Samuel Joseph Byck; 5: Type II—The Feminine Dimension Lynette Alice Fromme and Sara Jane Moore; 3: Type III; 6: Type III—Nihilism Giuseppe Zangara and Arthur Herman Bremer; 7: Type III—Nihilism John W. Hinckley, Jr. and Francisco Martin Duran; 4: Type IV and Atypical; 8: Type IV—The Psychotics Richard Lawrence, Charles J. Guiteau, and John Schrank; 9: The Atypicals—Family and Money Carl Austin Weiss and James Earl Ray; 5: Domestic Terrorists; 10: Industrial Society: Theodore John Kaczynski; 11: Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Roe v. Wade Timothy James McVeigh and Eric Robert Rudolph; 6: Conclusion; 12: Criminal Responsibility and Risk; Epilogue
Biography
James W Clarke
