Defining Danger - American Assassins and the New Domestic Terrorists

Since 1789, when George Washington became the first president of the United States, forty-three men have held the nation's highest office

List of contents

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

About the author

James W Clarke

Summary

Since 1789, when George Washington became the first president of the United States, forty-three men have held the nation's highest office

Product details

• Authors: James W Clarke, James W. Clarke
• Publisher: Transaction Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 15.12.2006
• EAN: 9780765803412
• ISBN: 978-0-7658-0341-2
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 32 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature > Letters, diaries; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Terrorism, Terrorism, armed struggle, United States of America, USA, Political Assassinations