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Gun Barons: The Weapons That Transformed America and the Men Who Invented Them 

byJohn Bainbridge Jr

’s Gun Barons is a narrative history of six charismatic and idiosyncratic men who changed the course of American history through the invention and refinement of repeating weapons. Drawing on biographical detail, personal testimony, and historical context, the narrative gives Gun Barons a concrete sense of time, place, and consequence. Across the book, the weapons that transformed america and the men who invented them becomes a way to examine power, adaptation, responsibility, and change within biography & autobiography and history.

Publisher

St. Martin's Press

Publication date

2022

Format

Print edition

Pages

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ISBN

9781250266866