Book

Gun Country

Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America

Andrew C. McKevitt

2023

The University of North Carolina Press

Associated Ideas, People, and Places

Book Excerpt

More Guns, More Money: How America Turned Weapons Into a Consumer Commodity

How an American arms dealer and a surplus of guns in Europe after World War II popularized gun ownership.

by Andrew C. McKevitt via Literary Hub on September 12, 2024
Book Review

Give Your Mom a Gun

America’s favorite gun.

by Geoff Mann via London Review of Books on March 1, 2024
Book Review

The Real Origins of America’s Gun Culture

“Gun Country” chronicles the transformation of guns from tangible weapons to ideological ammunition during the Cold War.

by Becca Rothfeld via Washington Post on November 9, 2023

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A gun shop in Dunedin, Florida.

America Fell for Guns Recently, and for Reasons You Will Not Guess

The US today has extraordinary levels of gun ownership. But to see this as a venerable tradition is to misread history.

by Megan Kang via Aeon on April 9, 2024

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