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Lethal Passage
The Story of a Gun
by Erik Larson
ISBN: 0679759271
ISBN-13: 9780679759270
Format: Paperback
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Publisher: Vintage Books
Published date: 1995
Size: 5.5 x 8 inches
Weight: 0.55 pounds
Pages: 280
Publisher's Notes
In this compelling book, centered around a devastating act of violence perpetrated by a 16-years-old boy with a machine gun, Larson not only illuminates America's gun culture--its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists--but offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearms. "Should be required reading."--Newsday.
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