Gun crusaders [[electronic resource] ] : the NRA's culture war / / Scott Melzer
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| Autore: |
Melzer Scott
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| Titolo: |
Gun crusaders [[electronic resource] ] : the NRA's culture war / / Scott Melzer
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| Pubblicazione: | New York, : New York University Press, c2009 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 323.4/3 |
| Soggetto topico: | Gun control - United States |
| Firearms ownership - United States | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
| Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1 Frontier Masculinity, America’s “Gun Culture,” and the NRA -- 2 Why a Gun Movement? -- 3 Framing Threats to Gun Rights -- 4 Under Attack -- 5 Fighting the Culture Wars -- 6 The Politics of Commitment -- 7 Right and Far-Right Moral Politics -- 8 The Ties That Bind -- Epilogue -- Appendix -- Notes -- Index -- About the Author |
| Sommario/riassunto: | Nothing conjures up images of the American frontier and a pick-yourself-up-by-the-bootstraps view of freedom and independence quite like guns. 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Gun crusaders |
| ISBN: | 0-8147-5950-5 |
| 1-4416-3156-9 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910455115203321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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