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Authors:Erik Larson
Published on: 2011-07-27
Publisher: Vintage
Pages: 304
ISBN:0307803317
ISBN13: 9780307803313
Category:Social Science
Books Rating: 2.03
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This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another. In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as |the gun that made the eighties roar.| The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate. With a new afterword. |Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done.| --San Diego Union-Tribune |One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years.| --Washington Post Book WorldThis devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another. In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as |the gun that made the eighties roar.| The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate. With a new afterword. |Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done.| --San Diego Union-Tribune |One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years.| --Washington Post Book World
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