title: Assassination Vacation
text: Assassination Vacation is a 2005 book by Sarah Vowell,  in which she travels around the United States researching the assassinations of U.S. Presidents Abraham Lincoln, James A. Garfield and William McKinley.  While most of the book is devoted to facts about the assassinated presidents and the men who would murder them, Vowell intersperses anecdotes of her self-proclaimed "pilgrimage" of presidential assassinations, including a production of the 1990 musical Assassins.
  
  Audiobook
  
  An abridged audiobook was released by Simon & Schuster on March 29, 2005.  It contained a large cast of readers, and original music was composed by Michael Giacchino. In order of appearance, the cast was:
  
  Conan O'Brien as Robert Todd Lincoln 
  Eric Bogosian as John Wilkes Booth
  Stephen King as Abraham Lincoln
  Dave Eggers as Mike Ryan
  Catherine Keener as Gretchen Worden
  Jon Stewart as James A. Garfield
  Tony Kushner as John Humphrey Noyes
  Brad Bird as Charles Guiteau and Emma Goldman
  Daniel Handler as William McKinley
  Greg Giraldo as Theodore Roosevelt
  David Rakoff as Leon Czolgosz
  
  See also
   Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
   Assassination of James A. Garfield
   Assassination of William McKinley
  
  References
  
  External links
  Book discussion on Assassination Vacation, C-SPAN, April 27, 2005
  
  2005 non-fiction books
  2005 audio plays
  Books by Sarah Vowell
  Works about assassinations in the United States
  Books about Abraham Lincoln
  Books about William McKinley
  Books about Theodore Roosevelt
  Books about James A. Garfield
  Assassination of James A. Garfield
  Assassination of William McKinley
  Assassination of Abraham Lincoln
  Cultural depictions of Abraham Lincoln
  Cultural depictions of James A. Garfield
  Cultural depictions of William McKinley
  Cultural depictions of John Wilkes Booth
  Cultural depictions of Theodore Roosevelt