Nonfiction November 2018 - week 2

Nonfiction November is back! I love participating, and if you want to too, you can find more information here. Each week there is a new nonfiction post prompt. This week, it's nonfiction and fiction book pairing.

Week 2: Fiction / Nonfiction Book Pairing: This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!” or just two titles that you think would go well together. Maybe it’s a historical novel and you’d like to get the real history by reading a nonfiction version of the story.

Continuing with last week's presidents theme, this week I'm pairing up nonfiction and fiction titles having to do with the presidential assassination attempts. While the assassination attempt is not the main plot point of James Patterson and President Clinton's The President Is Missing, there is an attempt on President Duncan's life that takes the lives of two secret service men.

I'm pairing this current fiction title with the older nonfiction title, Killing Reagan by Bill O'Reilly and Martin Duggard. This book details the March 1981 attempt on President Ronald Reagan's life by John Hinckley Jr. who was hoping this stunt would impress actress Jodie Foster, with whom he was in love. Three others were wounded in the attempt. White House Press Secretary James Brady suffered brain damage and was permanently disabled. There is speculation that the assassination attempt and resulting surgery may have caused the president's Alzheimer's disease, and this is discussed in the book.