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

by Adam Winkler

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0393345831
• ISBN13: 9780393345834
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 8.2"