Gun Crusaders

The NRA's Culture War

von Scott Melzer

336 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

Gun Crusaders is a fascinating inside look at how the four-million member National Rifle Association and its committed members come to see each and every gun control threat as a step down the path towards gun confiscation, and eventually socialism. Enlivened by a rich analysis of NRA materials, meetings, leader speeches, and unique in-depth interviews with NRA members, Gun Crusaders focuses on how the NRA constructs and perceives threats to gun rights as one more attack in a broad liberal cultural war. Scott Melzer shows that the NRA promotes a nostalgic vision of frontier masculinity, whereby gun rights defenders are seen as patriots and freedom fighters, defending not the freedom of religion, but the religion of individual rights and freedoms.

• Reihe: NYU Press
• ISBN: 9780814795507
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 01.10.2009
• Größe: 233 x 163 mm
• Verlag: NYU Press - IPS