Presidential Assassins

by Patricia D. Netzley

Traces the lives and motives of American assassins or would-be assassins and their impact on history.

112 pages, Hardcover

First published September 1, 1999

About the author

Patricia Dawn Netzley was a prolific author of over sixty books for middle-grade, high school, and university readers, covering topics from history to literature and the arts. Beginning her writing career at age 12, she published poetry and essays before releasing her first book, The Assassination of President John F. Kennedy, in 1994. Born in Evanston, Illinois, she earned a bachelor’s degree in English from UCLA, where she met her husband, Raymond Netzley. Patricia balanced a career as a medical editor with her passion for writing, producing acclaimed single-volume encyclopedias on subjects such as women’s travel literature, environmental literature, and movie special effects. She was a devoted wife, mother, grandmother, and lifelong animal lover.

Reviews

[Paula Greenfield]

This is an interesting and informative book. I learned many things, but it is also a heavy book and it took me a bit to get through it.

[Shelli]

This was a fascinating look into the lives of presidential assassins and attempted assassins. Not surprisingly there many similarities which profilers have gleaned from studying these people of various eras, backgrounds, and genders; which all ended up having a similar goal, to murder our nation’s leader. A fascinating read for middle school age students on up covering U.S. History or interested in physiology or profiling.