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• To Keep and Bear Arms

  the Origins of An Anglo-American Right

  Malcolm, Joyce Lee

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  Joyce Malcolm illuminates the historical facts underlying the current passionate debate about gun-related violence, the Brady Bill, and the NRA, revealing the original meaning and intentions behind the individual right to "bear arms."

• The Second Amendment in Law and History

  Historians and Constitutional Scholars on the Right to Bear Arms

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  This lucid 10-essay collection by historians and legal scholars soberly takes on the entire revisionist anti-gun control project. Setting the stage, Bogus and Robert Spitzer analyze its history of logic and legal scholarship.

• The Founders' Second Amendment

  Origins of the Right to Bear Arms

  Halbrook, Stephen P

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  Halbrook, a research fellow at the Independent Institute in California, investigates the nature of the ideas underlying the Second Amendment during the Revolutionary generation.

• Gunfight

  the Battle Over the Right to Bear Arms in America

  Winkler, Adam

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  Winkler, a professor of constitutional law at UCLA, mines 400 years of debate over gun control in America to analyze the Supreme Court's landmark 2008 decision in District of Columbia v. Heller in this timely and persuasive history.

• The Second Amendment

  a Biography

  Waldman, Michael, 1960-

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  Though not likely to end controversial debates, Waldman (My Fellow Americans), president of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU School of Law, delivers a balanced review of the history of Second Amendment politics and jurisprudence.

• The Law of the Land

  a Grand Tour of Our Constitutional Republic

  Amar, Akhil Reed,

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  An expert guide to America's constitutional landscape, Amar sheds new light on American history and politics and shows how America's legal tradition unites a vast and disparate land.

• Loaded

  a Disarming History of the Second Amendment

  Dunbar-Ortiz, Roxanne, 1938-

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  In Loaded, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz peels away the myths of gun culture to expose the true historical origins of the Second Amendment, revealing the racial undercurrents connecting the earliest Anglo settlers with contemporary gun…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Hidden History of Guns and the Second Amendment

  Hartmann, Thom, 1951-

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  Thom Hartmann, the most popular progressive radio host in America, looks at the real history of guns in America and what we can do to limit both their lethal impact and the power of the gun lobby.

• The Second

  Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

  Anderson, Carol (Carol Elaine),

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  Emory University history Anderson (White Rage) takes an illuminating look at how U.S. laws and customs around gun ownership have been used to subjugate Black Americans.