ABSTRACT
The title of this book, Defining Danger, conveys its two central themes. The first is that a sustained pattern of individual acts of violence directed toward America’s democratically elected leaders represents a defining element of American politics that sets it apart from the rest of the modern world. The second theme addresses the issue of how that danger is defined and may be confronted through an analysis of the motives and characteristics of twenty American assassins, would-be assassins, and domestic terrorists.
