Porter, Lindsay <br/><br/>
Assassination :  a history of political murder: with 152 illustrations, 78 in colour / 
Lindsay Porter. 
 - London :  Thames and Hudson,  2010. 
 - 191 p. :  ill. (some color) ;  26 cm. 
<br/><br/> With hard and super cover 
<br/><br/>Includes notes, index 
<br/><br/>Cont.: Assassins and 'Hashisbin' -- Plotting the ancient world : Julius Caesar -- Turbulent priest : Thomas Becket -- To kill a king : Henri IV -- Martyr of the revolution : Jean-Paul Marat -- Anarchy, nationalism and the black hand : Archduke Franz Ferdinand -- From outlaws to icons : Emiliano Zapata and Pancho Villa -- Killing the president : John F. Kennedy -- State-sanctioned plots : assassination as foreign policy -- Nationalism and fundamentalism in the 21st century. 
<br/><br/> From Caesar and Thomas Becket to Archduke Franz Ferdinand and beyond, this book focuses on the most (in)famous examples of assassination through history, and uses them to explore its various meanings, myths and cults. It also features paintings, drawings, photographs and archival documents 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780500251584 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Assassination--History<br/>Assassination--Social aspects