April 25, 2016:
“Guns are often associated with American identity – from Revolutionary War militias to cowboys of the Wild West. A new examination of the firearms industry reveals how sales and marketing strategies shaped U-S gun culture.”
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Wall Street Journal
April 22, 2016:
“Oliver Winchester started his career in 1848 as a men’s shirt manufacturer. He did well enough that, by 1855, he could afford to invest in a fledgling New Haven firm called the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company—and start to shift over to the gun business, where his name became famous.”
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C-Span
April 14, 2016
“After Words with Pamela Haag”
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Publishers Weekly
March 21, 2016:
“The Gunning of America fundamentally revises the history of guns and gun culture in America. By looking at the gun industry archives, it shows how the gun culture was made and produced.”
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Publishers Weekly
March 21, 2016:
“What does a haunted house in America have to do with gun control? This question animates Pamela Haag’s newest book The Gunning of America: Business and the Making of American Gun Culture (April 19), a history of the gun business in the late 19th century focused on the Winchester family.”
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CBS News
March 13, 2016:
“No other developed country embraces firearms the way ours does. The more we argue about them, the more it seems their mystique grows. But just how guns became part of our cultural DNA has been a long journey. And that is where Lee Cowan begins.”
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Campaign for The American Reader
May 9, 2016:
“As luck would have it, page 99 of The Gunning of America points the reader right toward my biggest authorial challenge in the book—but also one of its singularities and unique contributions. The first half of the page describes the demise of Benjamin Tyler Henry, the embattled genius inventor of the fearsome repeater rifle that, before too long, will be renamed from the “Henry” rifle to the now-iconic “Winchester” rifle, in honor of its capitalist and manufacturer rather than its maker. Like other aspiring mechanics and Yankee inventors of his day, Henry had been “’wealthy several times,’ his obituary notes, and poor just as often.” But here, on this page, we’re seeing how the power is shifting in 1866 from the creative inventor with creative talent but no capital toward the industrialist, Oliver Winchester, who had capital but not creative talent.”
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Wall Street Journal
The Commercial Origins of American Gun Culture April 22, 2016: “Oliver Winchester started his career in 1848 as a men’s shirt manufacturer. He did well enough that, by 1855, he could afford to invest in a fledgling New Haven firm called the Volcanic Repeating Arms Company—and start to shift over to the gun business, where his name became famous.”
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