An account of the events leading up to the famous 1804 duel between Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, two important figures in the early politics of the United States.
In Pistols and Politics, Hyde gives serious scrutiny to a region heretofore largely neglected by historians, integrating the anomalies of one area of Louisiana into the history of the state and the wider South.
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This book argues that dueling should be looked at as a fundamental part of the history of journalism.
After all, you know what a rhetorical question is, don't you? In this updated edition of his classic guide, Sam Leith traces the art of argument from ancient Greece down to its many modern mutations.
He resists resorting to vague hand-waving about “exoticism,” while at the same time he brings to life the juicy stories that illustrate his points.
Kelly, Robin, 633 Kennedy, David, 495 Kennedy, Edward (Ted) introduces a bill calling for major new handgun ... Dylan, 493, 494,542 Kleck, Gary, 323,368, 374–377, 393, 479 Knox, Neal Federation for the NRA, 175 photograph of, ...
In this book, John Scanlan considers the Sex Pistols as the first successful art project of their manager, Malcolm McLaren, a vision born out of radical politics, boredom, and his deep and unrelenting talent for perverse opportunism.
Through the lens of the iconic firearm, Esch relates the story of the peasant insurgencies of the Mexican Revolution, the guerrilla warfare of the Sandinista Revolution, and the ongoing drug-related wars in Mexico and Central America, to ...
These essays force a reconsideration of important aspects of the civil rights struggle from both a national and regional perspective.