A best-selling cultural critic and frequent radio commentator, Sarah Vowell is a contributing editor for NPR's This American Life and the author of The Partly Cloudy Patriot and Take the Cannoli. Known for her witty and irreverent exposés of the glorious conundrums of American history, Vowell takes an actual and metaphoric trip though the theaters of American political murder from Buffalo to Washington, Alaska to Key West, and through the lenses of pop culture, including film, literature, and, of course, historical tourism, in Assassination Vacation.