Michael Stuart Newton (Book order)

Michael Stuart Newton Book order

Michael Newton delves into history and literary studies, focusing on marginalized subjects and unconventional narratives. His work explores the darker aspects of human experience, including the history of conspiracy, political violence, and the fascination with feral children. Newton's approach is both scholarly and engaging, offering readers fresh perspectives on ostensibly familiar events and figures.

Age of Assassins

726 pages
26 hours of reading

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These were the crimes that were meant to change the world, and sometimes did. The book connects the killing of the Kennedys or the murder that sparked the First World War with less well-known stories, such as the Berlin shooting of an instigator of the Armenian genocide or the attack on an American 'robber baron'. Taking in Malcolm X and Queen Victoria, Adolf Hitler and Andy Warhol, Charles Manson and Emma Goldman, Tsars, Presidents, and pop stars, Age of Assassins traces the process that turned thought into action and murder into an icon.In tackling the history of political violence, the book is unique in its range and attention to detail, summoning up an age of assassination that is far from over.