Assassination
by Miles Hudson /
2011 / English / PDF
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The assassination of political, religious and military leaders,
often dictators, is frequently seen as the short cut to solving a
particular problem. The author takes issue with this argument.
Examining a series of linked assassinations together with their
causes and effects, he seeks to demonstrate that in many cases the
killings have produced unforeseen and unintended consequences that
all too often result in the opposite result to that desired. His
case studies, arranged intriguingly in pairs, cover such diverse
characters as Julius Caesar and Thomas a' Becket, Gandhi and Jesus
Christ, Tsar Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln, Michael Collins and
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, and Martin Luther King and Malcolm
X.This is an absorbing, controversial and informative study.
The assassination of political, religious and military leaders,
often dictators, is frequently seen as the short cut to solving a
particular problem. The author takes issue with this argument.
Examining a series of linked assassinations together with their
causes and effects, he seeks to demonstrate that in many cases the
killings have produced unforeseen and unintended consequences that
all too often result in the opposite result to that desired. His
case studies, arranged intriguingly in pairs, cover such diverse
characters as Julius Caesar and Thomas a' Becket, Gandhi and Jesus
Christ, Tsar Alexander II and Abraham Lincoln, Michael Collins and
Field Marshal Sir Henry Wilson, and Martin Luther King and Malcolm
X.This is an absorbing, controversial and informative study.
