Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America

Gunfight: The Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in AmericaGunfight is a timely work examining America's four centuries long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns not abortion, race, or religion are at the heart of America's cultural divide. Using the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation's capital as a springboard, Winkler brilliantly weaves

Gunfight is a timely work examining America's four-centuries-long political battle over gun control and the right to bear arms. In this definitive and provocative history, Adam Winkler reveals how guns--not abortion, race, or religion--are at the heart of America's cultural divide. Using the landmark 2008 case District of Columbia v. Heller--which invalidated a law banning handguns in the nation's capital--as a springboard, Winkler brilliantly weaves together the dramatic stories of gun-rights advocates and gun-control lobbyists, providing often unexpected insights into the venomous debate that now cleaves our nation.

Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: 07/15/2013
ISBN: 9780393345834
Pages: 361
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d