Gunfight : the battle over the right to bear arms in America / Adam Winkler.
Gunfight : the battle over the right to bear arms in America / Adam Winkler.
Gunfight : the battle over the right to bear arms in America / Adam Winkler.
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New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., c2011.
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N344.73053/5
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English
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Physical content
xi, 361 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Contents
Big guns and little guns at the Supreme Court -- "Gun grabbers" -- "Gun nuts" -- Guns of our fathers -- Civil war -- The wild west -- Gangsters, guns, and G-men -- By any means necessary -- Decision.
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Publisher
New York, NY : W.W. Norton & Co., c2011.
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1st ed.
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New York (State)
Date Published
c2011.
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Summary
Author Adam Winkler, a professor of Constitutional law, uses the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller, which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation's Capitol, as a springboard for a historical narrative of America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. From the Founding Fathers and...
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Gunfight : the battle over the right to bear arms in America / Adam Winkler.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [303]-342) and index.
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c2011.
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N344.73053/5
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74VvJjooGqLX
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0393077411 (hardcover)
9780393077414 (hardcover) :
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344.730533
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991008248669702626
