Scott Melzer

Gun Crusaders (eBook, ePUB)

The NRA's Culture War

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bonnier Books UK
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780814795972
• Artikelnr.: 49725138

Autorenporträt

Scott Melzer is Associate Professor of Sociology and Chair of the Department of Anthropology & Sociology at Albion College.