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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: MKTBUZZ who started this subject3/14/2002 4:08:44 PM
From: Neocon  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
From the same quarterly, a different review:

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Arming America is a very frustrating book. The subject and its implications are important. But Bellesiles's scholarship does not do justice to his subject--at least, not from a military perspective. His efforts to minimize the importance of guns, militia, and war in early America and to portray the Civil War as the catalyst for a national gun culture founder on a consistently biased reading of sources and on careless uses of evidence and context. Had he not been so determined to set the early history of the colonies and nation sharply against the Civil War, had he been willing to see some variations in the importance of guns and levels of violence from one period to another--had he been willing to let the sources add unexpected and refreshing complexities to his argument--he might have produced the kind of history that would not only have won the admiration of scholars but also have provided an uncontested foundation for a fresh debate on guns and violence in the United States. Unfortunately for all of us, Arming America does not match his admirable intentions. 10

(Ira Gruber is Harris Masterson, Jr., Professor of History at Rice University)
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