October 19, 2022:
“While Americans stayed “home together” in 2020, depleting flour reserves in pursuit of the perfect sourdough starter, another commodity sold out and skyrocketed to record sales. Guns.”
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The Inside History of How Guns Are Marketed and Sold in America
August 19, 2022:
“This has coincided with a rise in mass shootings in which dozens of people are killed or wounded in a matter of minutes—usually carried out by young men with AR-15-style rifles that they purchased legally.”
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The best books that have something new or surprising to say about American guns and gun culture
Summer 2022:
The best books that have something new or surprising to say about American guns and gun culture.
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Why do Americans Love Guns?
Summer 2022:
Why do Americans love guns? When I am in other countries I sometimes get asked why Americans love guns so much. Of course, it’s worth remembering that not all or even most Americans do.
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The Times Literary Supplement
July 8, 2016:
Mad men – How marketing created American gun culture, turning a weapon of war into an object of desire.
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Newsweek
June 15, 2022:
Gun Marketing Is Being Held Accountable. Don’t Ignore Sponsoring Kidfluencers | Opinion
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Is US Gun-Culture More Important Than You Could’ve Imagined?
June 14, 2021:
An interview with Andrew van Wagner on gun history and culture, marriage, editing and writing.
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The Indispensibles Podcast
May 19, 2021:
Listen to my conversation about life and editing with the brilliant rainmaker and thinker Bruce Tulgan:
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The Widow and the Winchester
February 1, 2019:
“The Widow and the Winchester”
When Sarah Winchester’s husband died, she inherited millions from the family business: the manufacture of the famous Winchester Rifle. A medium reportedly told Sarah that she would be haunted by the victims of that rifle unless she used her fortune to build a house, and never stop building. That’s exactly what she did.
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Connecticut Explored
Winter 2016:
“How Connecticut-Made Guns Won The West”
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