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The Five Weeks of Giuseppe Zangara:
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About the BookOn February 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, an unemployed New Jersey bricklayer from Italy, fired five pistol shots at the back of President-elect Franklin Roosevelt's head from only twenty-five feet away. While all five rounds missed their target, each bullet found a separate victim. One of these was Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago, who died of his wound three weeks later. Two weeks later, Zangara was executed in the electric chair. It was perhaps the swiftest legal execution in 20th-century American history. With his death, Zangara took to the grave the answer to one of the most baffling mysteries in the annals of Presidential assassinations. Was FDR Zangara's real target? Or was he a mob hitman who actually intended to kill Cermak? Was he a terrorist? Or was he simply insane? Reviews"This fresh and surprising study, based on materials not seen for more than 50 years, restores to vivid life another in the long line of luckless, angry loners who have sought to change our country's course."––Geoffrey C. Ward ". . . a chapter of history that, but for a few inches, surely would have changed the fate of this nation."––Chicago Tribune "The issues he raises are still current today . . ."––Publishers Weekly ". . . provides a fascinating, if frustrating, glimpse into the twisted mind of a man who came dramatically close to altering history."––Booklist |
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