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“In this precise primer on firearms practices and policies, progressive talk-show host Hartmann examines the history of routine gun usage and extreme gun violence and assesses the influence of gun ownership on contemporary political, economic, and social norms…A brief but powerful analysis of a searing national crisis.” –Booklist
Thom Hartmann, the most well-liked progressive radio host in America and a New York Instances bestselling writer, seems at the actual historical past of weapons in America and what we are able to do to restrict each their deadly affect and the facility of the gun foyer.
Taking his sometimes in-depth, traditionally knowledgeable view, Hartmann examines the brutal function weapons have performed in American historical past, from the genocide of the Native People to the enforcement of slavery (Slave Patrols are the truth is the Second Modification’s “well-regulated militias”) and the racist post-Civil Struggle social order. He reveals how the NRA and conservative Supreme Court docket justices used specious logic to invent a just about limitless particular person proper to personal weapons, which has enabled the ever-growing variety of mass shootings in the US. However Hartmann additionally identifies a handful of highly effective, commonsense options that will break the facility of the gun foyer and restore the understanding of the Second Modification that the Framers of the Structure meant. That is the sort of temporary, good evaluation for which Hartmann is justly famend.
From the Writer
The Thom Hartmann Hidden Historical past Collection
The Hidden Historical past Collection contains ten paramount and well timed books that break down the largest obstacles of right now, inserting them in historic context and offering actual, tangible calls to motion each for people and society at giant. Every e-book concisely addresses these urgent present points and provides a set of options with “roadmaps” for people and communities to comply with to create a extra equitable and affluent financial system and a safer, extra simply society for all.
Thom lays out the methods by which inequality in America has shifted over the past 50 years and determine a handful of sensical, highly effective options that tackle these points at totally different ranges, reminiscent of getting cash out of politics, addressing social despair and financial inequality, strengthening democratic establishments of governance, and combating worry.
The Hidden Historical past Collection
Thom Hartmann, the most well-liked progressive radio host in America and a New York Instances bestselling writer, seems at the actual historical past of weapons in America and what we are able to do to restrict each their deadly affect and the facility of the gun foyer.
“Hartmann delivers a full-throated indictment of the U.S. Supreme Court docket on this punchy polemic.”—Publishers Weekly
“Hartmann’s historical past of voter suppression in America is important data given present information about voter registration purges and redistricting…a very well timed subject for an election yr…”—Booklist
“This is the most important, dynamic book on the cancers of monopoly by giant corporations written in our generation.”—from the foreword by Ralph Nader
This e-book seems at the actual historical past of the corrupting affect of oligarchy in America—and the way we are able to struggle again.
Hartmann provides a deep dive into the shameful historical past of American healthcare, displaying how greed, racism, and oligarchic corruption led to the present “sickness for profit” system.
America’s hottest progressive radio host and New York Instances bestselling writer Thom Hartmann reveals how the federal government and company America misuse our private information and reveals how we are able to reclaim our privateness.
Writer : Berrett-Koehler Publishers (June 4, 2019)
Language : English
Paperback : 192 pages
ISBN-10 : 1523085991
ISBN-13 : 978-1523085996
Merchandise Weight : 5.6 ounces
Dimensions : 5 x 0.48 x 7 inches
