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Hardcover.
Tom Diaz's first book, Making a Killing (The New Press, 1999), is widely considered to be the most influential anti-gun book ever written. It helped to spark a national media campaign around the machinations of the gun industry and the wave of violence it spawned. Picking up where Making a Killing left off, The Last Gun looks at how the gun industry has changed in the intervening decade, how gun violence has changed in step with industry trends and why the time is ripe for a new political effort to attack gun violence at its source: the guns themselves.
Tom Diaz's first book, Making a Killing (The New Press, 1999), is widely considered to be the most influential anti-gun book ever written. It helped to spark a national media campaign around the machinations of the gun industry and the wave of violence it spawned. Picking up where Making a Killing left off, The Last Gun looks at how the gun industry has changed in the intervening decade, how gun violence has changed in step with industry trends and why the time is ripe for a new political effort to attack gun violence at its source: the guns themselves.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
The New Press United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781595588302
SKU
V9781595588302
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Ref
99-15
Reviews for The Last Gun
"In his eminently readable style, mixing science and anecdote, Diaz shows how our leaders have created gun policies that are good for the gun industry but horrific for our nation. He also describes solutions worthy of the name. What a timely book!" David Hemenway, Professor of Health Policy, Harvard School of Public Health "Diaz once again reveals what the firearms-industrial complex doesn’t want the public to know, while refusing to spare politicians and the media for their complicity in the cover-up
This book should be required reading for policy makers at every level and for every American fed up with the massacre of 30,000 people a year." Andrew Fois, Deputy Attorney General, Public Safety Division, Washington, D.C. "Through a gripping narrative that combines plenty of factual data with compelling storytelling, Diaz makes the convincing case that the gun industry is knowingly trading American lives for profits
After the tragedy of Newtown, if you are going to read one book to understand the current political fight in Washington, this is it." Joshua Horwitz, Executive Director, Coalition to Stop Gun Violence