Wall Street Journal reporter Larson has written a new afterword to this timely study of American gun culture.
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.
“One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years.”-Washington Post Book World
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.
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.
“One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years.”-Washington Post Book World
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.
Lethal Passage: The Story of a Gun
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Product Details
BN ID: | 2940171053703 |
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Publisher: | Recorded Books, LLC |
Publication date: | 06/17/2019 |
Edition description: | Unabridged |