Housewife Assassin av Geri Spieler

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<b>"Spieler offers a portrait of an erratic, unstable woman with a protean capacity to shift identities, with the 1960s and ''70s as a dramatic backdrop. Fans of true crime accounts or contemporary history will savor this.” 
―<i>Publishers Weekly </i></b><p><br></p><p>President Gerald Ford suffered two attempts on his life during his term in office: one by a young woman in Charles Manson''s Family, Lynette "Squeaky" Fromme, and the other by a far more unlikely candidate—an average middle-aged mother of five—Sara Jane Moore. After thirty years in contact with Moore in prison, journalist Geri Spieler deconstructs her life in <i>Housewife Assassin</i>, tracing the path from Moore’s small-town upbringing in West Virginia to that fateful moment when she tried to assassinate the president. </p><p><br></p><p> Throughout Moore’s dodgy life she hid her identity and misled those around her. Through the turbulent 60s and 70s, she