Developing the theory of cultural trauma in regard to the shattering potential effects of political assassinations, Eyerman examines political and social life in three different national contexts: Martin Luther King, Bobby Kennedy, and Harvey Milk in the U.S.; Theo Van Gogh in the Netherlands; and Olof Palme and Anna Lindh in Sweden

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RON EYERMAN Professor of Sociology at Yale University, USA.

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Political Assassination, Trauma and Narration Remembering the Sixties:The Assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., and Robert Kennedy The End of Innocence: The Murders of Olof Palme and Anna Lindh The End of Tolerance:The murders of Pim Fortuyn and Theo van Gogh