Killing No Murder - A Study of Assassination as a Political Means - Caesar, Lincoln, Franz Ferdinand, Kennedy

Thomas Nelson & Sons 1969

When should we or must we kill a politician? Churchill is said to have refused to sanction the assassination of Hitler - was he right to consider aerial bombing a more acceptable way of dealing with Nazism? If a leading racist, a fresh dictator, an irremovable or crooked politician appears, when, if ever, can we appeal to popular justice? Is assassination a killing we approve nad murder a killing we disapprove? And how far does the victim offer himself as a human sacrifice in the achetypal human tradition?...