Gun Country
Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America
By Andrew C. McKevitt

Approx. 336 pp., 6.125 x 9.25, 20 halftones, notes, index
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Paperback ISBN: 978-1-4696-7724-8
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Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4696-7496-4
Published: November 2023
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When gun control legislation emerged in the 1960s, many Americans, accustomed to the unregulated postwar bounty of cheap guns and fearful of Soviet invasion, domestic subversion, and urban uprisings, fiercely challenged it. Meanwhile, gun control groups were diverted from their abolitionist roots toward a conciliatory, fundraising-focused strategy that struggled to limit the stockpiling of firearms. Gun Country recasts the story of guns in postwar America as one of Cold War and racial anxieties, unfettered capitalism, and exceptional violence that continues to haunt us to this day.
About the Author
Andrew C. McKevitt is John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University. He is the author of Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America.
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"Exhaustively researched and bristling with sharp insights, Gun Country is a superb corrective to the debate over America's gun problem and what to do about it. This is a fresh and timely history."—Kyle Burke, author of Revolutionaries for the Right: Anticommunist Internationalism and Paramilitary Warfare in the Cold War
"A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the problem of guns in America."—Brian DeLay, University of California, Berkeley