Taking Aim at the President

Taking Aim at the President
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Publisher : St. Martin's Press
Total Pages : 264
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ISBN-10 : 9780230621848
ISBN-13 : 0230621848
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Book Synopsis Taking Aim at the President by : Geri Spieler

Download or read book Taking Aim at the President written by Geri Spieler and published by St. Martin's Press. This book was released on 2008-12-23 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2009 San Francisco Book Festival Award (Wild Card category) "I'm not sorry I tried...if successful, the assassination...just might have triggered the kind of chaos that could have started the upheaval of change." --Sara Jane Moore in 1976 Journalist Geri Spieler met would-be assassin Sara Jane Moore while she was in prison; Taking Aim at the President is based on over two decades of interviews as well as independant research. Spieler follows Moore's actions from her childhood in a small West Virginia town to her release from prison in December 2007. Moore's life was never conventional, and along the way she entered and dropped out of the military, was married five times, and was both a political radical and an FBI informant. Focusing on the complex psychology and motivations of a quintessentially desperate housewife and the only woman to ever fire a bullet at an American president, Spieler delivers a nuanced portrait of an elusive person and a fascinating glimpse back at a turbulent period in American history.


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