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Author : Jonathan Obert
Release : 2018-10-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 141/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Six-Shooter State by : Jonathan Obert
Download or read book The Six-Shooter State written by Jonathan Obert. This book was released on 2018-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public and private forms of violence have co-evolved rather than competed in America's political development since the nineteenth century.
Author : Jonathan Obert
Release : 2018-10-18
Genre : Political Science
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Book Rating : 631/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis The Six-Shooter State by : Jonathan Obert
Download or read book The Six-Shooter State written by Jonathan Obert. This book was released on 2018-10-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: American violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up of police and military forces in order to provide public security. At the same time, many of those citizens also demand the private right to protect their own families, home, and property. This book diagnoses this schizophrenia as a product of a distinctive institutional history, in which private forms of violence - vigilantes, private detectives, mercenary gunfighters - emerged in concert with the creation of new public and state forms of violence such as police departments or the National Guard. This dual public and private face of American violence resulted from the upending of a tradition of republican governance, in which public security had been indistinguishable from private effort, by the nineteenth-century social transformations of the Civil War and the Market Revolution.
Author : Jim Rasenberger
Release : 2021-05-18
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 395/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Revolver by : Jim Rasenberger
Download or read book Revolver written by Jim Rasenberger. This book was released on 2021-05-18. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patented in 1836, the Colt pistol with its revolving cylinder was the first practical firearm that could shoot more than one bullet without reloading. Its most immediate impact was on the expansionism of the American west, where white emigrants and US soldiers came to depend on it, and where Native Americans came to dread it. In making the revolver, Colt also changed American manufacturing, and revolutionized industry in the United States. Rasenberger brings the brazenly ambitious and profoundly innovative industrialist and leader Samuel Colt to vivid life. During an age of promise and progress, and also of slavery, corruption, and unbridled greed, Colt not only helped to create this America, he completely embodied it.-- adapted from info provided
Author : Vince Flynn
Release : 2017-09-05
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 543/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Enemy of the State by : Vince Flynn
Download or read book Enemy of the State written by Vince Flynn. This book was released on 2017-09-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “In the world of black-op thrillers, Mitch Rapp continues to be among the best of the best” (Booklist, starred review), and he returns in the #1 New York Times bestselling series alone and targeted by a country that is supposed to be one of America’s closest allies. After 9/11, the United States made one of the most secretive and dangerous deals in its history—the evidence against the powerful Saudis who coordinated the attack would be buried and in return, King Faisal would promise to keep the oil flowing and deal with the conspirators in his midst. But when the king’s own nephew is discovered funding ISIS, the furious President gives Rapp his next mission: he must find out more about the high-level Saudis involved in the scheme and kill them. The catch? Rapp will get no support from the United States. Forced to make a decision that will change his life forever, Rapp quits the CIA and assembles a group of independent contractors to help him complete the mission. They’ve barely begun unraveling the connections between the Saudi government and ISIS when the brilliant new head of the intelligence directorate discovers their efforts. With Rapp getting too close, he threatens to go public with the details of the post-9/11 agreement between the two countries. Facing an international incident that could end his political career, the President orders America’s intelligence agencies to join the Saudis’ effort to hunt the former CIA man down. Rapp, supported only by a team of mercenaries with dubious allegiances, finds himself at the center of the most elaborate manhunt in history. With white-knuckled twists and turns leading to “an explosive climax” (Publishers Weekly), Enemy of the State is an unputdownable thrill ride that will keep you guessing until the final page.
Author : William Colt MacDonald
Release : 1950
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Book Synopsis Six-shooter Showdown by : William Colt MacDonald
Download or read book Six-shooter Showdown written by William Colt MacDonald. This book was released on 1950. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
