The following bibliography represents works that were most helpful for this compilation and that provided comprehensive coverage of several assassinations. In addition, the sources of limited information and quotations are mentioned in the main text. Of course innumerable news sources-newspapers and periodicals-and standard reference works were relied upon heavily. Among these are the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the Encyclopedia Americana, Facts On File News Digest, the New York Times, the Washington Post, Time, Newsweek, and Current History.
Ault, Warren O. Europe in Modern Times. Boston: D. C. Heath, 1946.
Belin, David W. Final Disclosure. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1988.
Blakey, G. Robert, and Billings, Richard N. The Plot to Kill the President. New York: Times Books, 1981.
Bowder, Diana, ed. Who Was Who in the Roman World. New York: Washington Square Press, 1984.
Carey, Jane Perry Clark, and Carey, Andrew Galbraith. The Web of Modern Greek Politics. New York: Columbia University Press, 1968.
Cambridge Ancient History, The. 3rd ed. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1970.
Cambridge Medieval History, The. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1936.
Cambridge Modern History, The New. Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press, 1957.
Clarke, James W. American Assassins: The Darker Side of Politics. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1982.
Cline, Dr. Ray S. The CIA under Reagan, Bush & Casey. Washington, D.C.: Acropolis Books, 1981.
Cohen, Mickey, with Nugent, John Peer. Mickey Cohen, In My Own Words. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1975.
Conquest, Robert. Stalin and the Kirov Murder. New York: Oxford University Press, 1989.
Davis, John H. Mafia Kingfish. Carlos Marcello and the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. New York: McGraw Hill, 1989.
Demaris, Ovid. Captive City: Chicago in Chains. New York: Lyle Stuart, 1969.
——. The Last Mafioso: “Jimmy the Weasel” Fratianno. New York: Times Books, 1981.
Diederich, Bernard. Trujillo: The Death of the Goat. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978.
Dio Cassius. History of Rome. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1961.
Dobson, Christopher, and Payne, Ronald. Counterattack. New York: Facts On File, 1982.
——. The Terrorists. New York: Facts On File, 1980.
Durant, Will (and Durant, Ariel, vols. VII–X). The Story of Civilization (10 volumes). New York: Simon and Schuster:
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Our Oriental Heritage, 1935. |
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The Life of Greece, 1939. |
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Caesar and Christ, 1944. |
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The Age of Faith, 1950. |
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The Renaissance, 1953. |
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The Reformation, 1957. |
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The Age of Reason Begins, 1961. |
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The Age of Louis XIV, 1963. |
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The Age of Voltaire, 1965. |
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Rousseau and Revolution, 1967. |
Ergang, Robert. Europe since Waterloo. 3rd ed. Boston: Heath, 1967.
Ford, Franklin L. Political Murder: From Tyrannicide to Terrorism. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1985.
Fraser, Antonia, ed. The Lives of the Kings & Queens of England. New York: Knopf, 1975.
Gibbon, Edward. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. New York: Penguin, 1977.
Goldman, Emma. Living My Life. New York: New American Library, 1977.
Gutteridge, William, ed. Contemporary Terrorism. New York: Facts On File, 1986.
Hammerton, Sir John, and Barnes, Dr. Harry Elmer, eds. The Illustrated World History. New York, 1940.
Hibbert, Christopher. The House of Medici: Its Rise & Fall. New York: Morrow, 1975.
Horan, James D., and Sann, Paul. Pictorial History of the Wild West. New York: Crown, 1954.
Huie, William Bradford. He Slew the Dreamer. New York: Delacorte Press, 1970.
Kee, Robert. The Green Flag. New York: Delacorte Press, 1972.
Jenkins, Romilly. Byzantium: The Imperial Centuries A.D. 610–1071. New York: Random House, 1966.
Johnson, William Weber. Heroic Mexico. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1968.
Lankenvich, George J., and Furer, Howard B. A Brief History of New York City. Port Washington, N.Y.: Associated Faculty Press, 1984.
Lentz III, Harris M. Assassinations and Executions: An Encyclopedia of Political Violence 1865–1986. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland, 1988.
Lesberg, Sandy. Assassination in Our Time. London: Preebles Press International, 1976.
Liston, Robert A. Terrorism. Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1977.
McKinley, James. Assassination in America. New York: Harper and Row, 1977.
McMillan, George. The Making of an Assassin. Boston: Little, Brown, 1976.
Machiavelli, Niccolò. The Prince. New York: New American Library, 1952.
Mallet, Michael. The Borgias. New York: Barnes & Noble, 1969.
Massie, Robert K. Nicholas and Alexandra. New York: Atheneum, 1967.
Mayo, Samuel H. A History of Mexico. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall, 1978.
Melanson, Philip H. The Murkin Conspiracy. New York: Praeger, 1989.
Murray, Jane. The Kings & Queens of England. New York: Scribner’s, 1974.
O’Neill, Hugh B. Companion to Chinese History. New York: Facts On File, 1987.
Petherick, Maurice. Restoration Rogues. London: Hollis and Carter, 1951.
Plutarch’s Lives. New York: Dutton, 1957.
Riasanovsky, Nicholas V. A History of Russia. New York: Oxford University Press, 1984.
Scheim, David E. Contract on America. New York: Shapolsky, 1988.
Schellenberg, Walter. Hitler’s Secret Service. New York: Jove/HBJ, 1977.
Schevill, Ferdinand. A History of Europe from the Reformation to the Present Day. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1947.
Shirer, William L. The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1960.
Sifakis, Carl. The Mafia Encyclopedia. New York: Facts On File, 1987.
Sykes, Sir Percy. History of Persia. London: Macmillan, 1930.
Toland, John. The Last 100 Days. New York: Random House, 1966.
Tuchman, Barbara W. The Guns of August. New York: Macmillan, 1962.
——. The March of Folly. New York: Knopf, 1984.
Tucker, H. H., ed. Combating the Terrorists. New York: Facts On File, 1988.
Ulam, Adam B. The Bolsheviks. New York: Collier Books, 1976.
Wilson, Colin. A Criminal History of Mankind. New York: G.P. Putnam’s, 1984.
Wilson, Colin, and Seaman, Donald. Encyclopedia of Modern Murder 1962–1982. London: Arthur Barker, 1983.
Woodward, Bob. Veil: The Secret Wars of the CIA 1981–1987. New York: Pocket Books, 1987.
Young, George F. The Medici. New York: Modern Library, 1930.