The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture
- ISBN-10
- 0465048951
- ISBN-13
- 9780465048953
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 528
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2016-04-19
- Author
- Pamela Haag
Description
Pamela Haag shows conclusively that this country's tragic obsession with guns is not part of our political origins, or our constitutional and moral DNA; it is the result of marketing and industrial capitalism. Our gun culture was made, ...
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