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Gun Crusaders – The NRA′s Culture War de Scott Melzer

Gun Crusaders – The NRA′s Culture War

Autor Scott Melzer
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 sep 2012
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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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780814764503
ISBN-10: 0814764509
Pagini: 336
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: MI – New York University

Recenzii

“The author argues a very credible thesis: that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is more than a single-interest group defending the right to own and bear arms. The NRA should also be understood as a social movement organization dedicated broadly to preserving traditional, conservative values.” CHOICE“Melzer brilliantly integrates deep personal observation with data and theory to construct a three-dimensional portrait of the modern gun rights movement. In a wonderfully written, engaging, and scrupulously fair narrative, Melzer's book makes a major contribution to our understanding of this tumultuous social movement and also happens to be a really good read.” Robert J. Spitzer, author of The Politics of Gun Control“Melzer takes us inside the NRA to reveal that more than gun control — much more — is at stake: a way of life and a definition of manhood that members feel is disintegrating in their hands. . . . [This is] a book that is both balanced and brave, critical and yet compassionate to men who have so lost their way that their guns offer their last tenuous hold on their identity.” Michael Kimmel, author of Guyland"This book is well written, and raises interesting issues about the transformation of interest groups in a period of polarized politics." Clyde Wilcox Political Science Quarterly

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Descriere

Focuses on how the NRA constructs and perceives threats to gun rights as one more attack in a broad liberal cultural war

Cuprins

Acknowledgments vii; Preface x; Introduction 1; Part I: Defending Guns, Defending Masculinity 31; 1. Frontier Masculinity, America’s “Gun Culture,” and the NRA 32; 2. Why a Gun Movement? 58; Part II: Talking Guns, Talking Culture War 97; 3. Framing Gun Threats 98; 4. Under Attack 148; 5. Fighting the Culture Wars 180; Part III: Committing to the NRA, Committing to the Right 235; 6. The Politics of Commitment 236; 7. Right and Far-Right Moral Politics 275; 8. The Ties That Bind 312; Epilogue: Tomorrow’s NRA 341; Appendix: Studying the NRA 354; Notes 372; Index