Defining danger : American assassins and the new domestic terrorists

Defining danger : American assassins and the new domestic terrorists / James W. Clarke ; with a new epilogue by the author.

Overview: Since 1789, when George Washington became the first president of the United States, forty-four 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,...

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Main Author: Clarke, James W., 1937-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, 2012.
Subjects:
Assassins > United States > Biography.
Assassination > United States.
Terrorists > United States > Biography.
Domestic terrorism > United States.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Criminology.
Assassination
Assassins
Domestic terrorism
Terrorists
United States
Biographies
Biographies.
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Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Prologue
  • 1: On being mad or merely angry
  • Part 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
  • Part 2: Type II:
  • 4: Type II-Rejection: Lee Harvey Oswald and Samuel Joseph Byck
  • 5: Type II-Feminine dimension: Lynette Alice Fromme and Sara Jane Moore
  • Part 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
  • Part 4: Type IV And Atypical:
  • 8: Type IV-Psychotics: Richard Lawrence, Charles J Guiteau, and John Schrank
  • 9: Atypicals-family and money: Carl Austin Weiss and James Earl Ray
  • Part 5: Domestic Terrorists:
  • 10: Industrial society: Theodore John Kaczynski
  • 11: Ruby Ridge, Waco, and Roe v Wade: Timothy James McVeigh and Eric Robert Rudolph
  • Part 6: Conclusion:
  • 12: Criminal responsibility and risk
  • Epilogue
  • Selected bibliography
  • Index.

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