Conceptualizes the genre of American assassination fiction as a dramatization of the tension between individualism and mass society in US culture.
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Introduction: The Individual and Society
1. Henry James, The Princess Casamassima (1886)
2. Jack London, The Assassination Bureau, Ltd. (1910/63)
3. Robert Penn Warren, All the King's Men (1946)
4. Philip K. Dick, Solar Lottery (1955)
5. Richard Condon, The Manchurian Candidate (1959)
6. Loren Singer, The Parallax View (1970)
7. Don DeLillo, Libra (1988)
8. Stephen King, The Dead Zone (1979)
9. Stephen King, 11/22/63 (2011)
10. Mark Costello, Big If (2002)
11. Nicholson Baker, Checkpoint (2004)
12. Noah Hawley, The Good Father (2012)
Conclusion
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