One Nation Under Guns

This is an impressive and outstanding history of America, the courts, politicians, parties, and race. The author makes a strong case that we have lost sight of the history around the Constitution and specifically the second amendment. He goes onto discuss Teddy Roosevelt, the modern western and western mythology, Nixon's anti-gun philosophy, the shockingly powerful NRA (from the 1920s on), and a new conservatism that has embraced an inaccurate story about our past and present. Erdozain is a masterful writer with exhaustive knowledge and passionate commitment to his subject.