These were the crimes that were meant to change the world & sometimes did. The book connects the killing of the Kennedys or the murder that sparked the First World War with less well-known stories such as the Berlin shooting of an instigator of the Armenian genocide or the attack on an American robber baron. Taking in Malcolm X & Queen Victoria Adolf Hitler & Andy Warhol Charles Manson & Emma Goldman Tsars Presidents & pop stars Age of Assassins" traces the process that turned thought into action & murder into an icon. In tackling the history of political violence the book is unique in its range & attention to detail summoning up an age of assassination that is far from over."