American Rifle: A Biography
- ISBN-10
- 0553384384
- ISBN-13
- 9780553384383
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 530
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2009-09-29
- Publisher
- Delta
- Author
- Alexander Rose
Description
George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. In this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of foot soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and spanning from the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of the rifle and its place in American culture.
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