[PDF.27ih] The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture

The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture

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#68301 in eBooks 2016-04-19 2016-04-19File Name: B0181NKJSA255 of 268 people found the following review helpful. Politics trumps history, this is an advocacy book, not a history bookBy John R. Lott Jr.This review was published in The Weekly Standard August 1, 2016Pamela Haag calls gun makers ldquo;merchants of death.rdquo; And Americarsquo;s love affair with guns, she says, didnrsquo;t really start until the late 1800s, when the ldquo;merchants of deathrdquo; convinced Americans that they wanted guns. She describes how gun makers were innovators in adve"In her remarkable new book, The Gunning of America, historian Pamela Haag undercuts much of the charged rhetoric about the importance of firearms in the nation's culture and history with a richly sourced, empirical look at the 19th century origins of the gun business and the men who made it."BostoAmericans have always loved guns. This special bond was forged during the American Revolution and sanctified by the Second Amendment. It is because of this exceptional relationship that American civilians are more heavily armed than the citizens of any other nation.Or so we're told.In The Gunning of America, historian Pamela Haag overturns this conventional wisdom. American gun culture, she argues, developed not because the gun was exceptional, but precisely because it was not: guns proliferated...

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