Review of Death of a President (2006) by Ken M — 09 Sep 2007

A stunning, thoughtful and scary 'what-if?'.

Brilliant.

This review of Death of a President (2006) was written by Ken M on 09 Sep 2007.

Death of a President has generally received mixed reviews.

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By Mike A (627) on 23 Jun 2011

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As skillful an artist as Range clearly is, he has gone to an awful lot of trouble to make a painfully obvious point about threats to civil…

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