Karen Blumenthal
Tommy: The Gun That Changed America
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The fascinating and topical nonfiction story of how one gun changed American courtrooms, streets, and homes, told for a YA audience by award-winning author Karen BlumenthalJohn Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver a hundred bullets in a matter of seconds-but didn't find a market in the U.S. military. Instead, the Tommy gun became the weapon of choice for a generation of bootleggers and bank-robbing outlaws, and became a deadly American icon. Following a bloody decade-and eighty years before the mass shootings…
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The fascinating and topical nonfiction story of how one gun changed American courtrooms, streets, and homes, told for a YA audience by award-winning author Karen BlumenthalJohn Taliaferro Thompson had a mission: to develop a lightweight, fast-firing weapon that would help Americans win on the battlefield. His Thompson submachine gun could deliver a hundred bullets in a matter of seconds-but didn't find a market in the U.S. military. Instead, the Tommy gun became the weapon of choice for a generation of bootleggers and bank-robbing outlaws, and became a deadly American icon. Following a bloody decade-and eighty years before the mass shootings of our own time-Congress moved to take this weapon off the streets, igniting a national debate about gun control. Critically-acclaimed author Karen Blumenthal, author of Bootleg: Murder, Moonshine, and the Lawless Years of Prohibition, Hillary Rodham Clinton: A Woman Living History, and Six Days in October: The Stock Market Crash of 1929, reveals the fascinating illustrated story of this famous and deadly weapon-of the lives it changed, the debate it sparked, and the unprecedented response it inspired in Tommy: The Gun That Changed America.Praise for Tommy: The Gun that Changed America:The Thompson rapid-firing submachine gun is the crux of Blumenthal's accessible social history, which encompasses military weaponry, gangster warfare, and gun-control legislation. . . . Engrossing and grisly. -Publishers Weekly, starred review Blumenthal's fascinating biography of the weapon is most dramatic in its chapters on the famous gangsters. . . . Lively prose, well-selected photographs, and thorough source notes round out this fine work. A gripping look at guns, gangsters, and finding the 'right balance between individual freedoms and community safety.' -Kirkus Reviews, starred review
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-250-11540-9
- EAN: 9781250115409
- Produktnummer: 20334671
- Verlag: St Martins Pr 3Pl
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
- Seitenangabe: 240 S.
- Masse: H22.6 cm x B15.0 cm x D1.3 cm 363 g
- Gewicht: 363
- Sonstiges: Ab 12 - 18 J.
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