Looks at leaders murdered at the peaks of their careers, before their full impact had even been realized, including Huey Long, Robert Kennedy, and Martin Luther King Jr.
Examines attempts to change great power structures by murder and focuses on the assassinations or attempts on Hitler, Trotsky, Lenin, and the Archduke Ferdinand.
The word "assassin" comes from the European name for the member of a secret order of the Ismaili sect of Islam. The order was founded by Hasan ibn al-Sabbah when he gained control (c.1090) of the mountain fortress of Alamut near the Caspian Sea.
Examines the loner as assassin focusing on Lee Harvey Oswald, John Wilkes Booth, and John Hinckley, who shot Reagan to win actress Jodie Foster's attention.