How to Kill a President : A History of Assassination and the State
How to Kill a President : A History of Assassination and the State
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Author(s): De Dios Vázquez, Juan
ISBN No.: 9781917516372
Pages: 300
Year: 202610
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 20.93
Dispatch delay: Dispatched between 7 to 15 days
Status: Available (Forthcoming)

A radical philosophical manual masquerading as a revolutionary playbook -- unflinching, poetic, and utterly urgent. How to Kill a President is a conceptual weapon cloaked in the guise of a book--less a conventional argument than a tactical arsenal of fifteen incisive lessons. Each chapter's title--How to Kill a Union, How to Kill a Tyrant, How to Kill the Future--reads like a manifesto of resistance, but what's being dismantled is far broader than any single leader or regime. It's the very architecture of modern sovereignty itself: law, nationhood, collective memory, hope, and the illusions of liberal progress. This isn't your usual political theory. Forget prescriptions, reforms, or roadmaps for a kinder state. Instead, the book drags you through power's haunted backstage: the rituals that crown presidents eternal, the violence disguised as order, the metaphors that sanitize tyranny. What surfaces is neither nihilism nor utopia but a fiercely alive space for political imagination--radical, volatile, uncertain.


Rejecting both liberal sentimentality and nostalgic revolution, How to Kill a President speaks to those who sense a system in terminal decline--and seek language sharp enough to name it, bury it, and ignite what comes next.


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