American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15
Cameron McWhirter, Zusha Elinson"A magisterial work of narrative history & original reportage . . . You can feel the tension building one cold, catastrophic fact at a time . . . A virtually unprecedented achievement." — Mike Spies, The New York Times Book Review
One of The New York Times's 33 Nonfiction Books to Read This Fall
Named a most anticipated book of the fall by The Washington Post & Los Angeles Times
American Gun: The True Story of the AR-15 presents the epic history of America's most controversial weapon.
In the 1950s, an obsessive firearms designer named Eugene Stoner invented the AR-15 rifle in a California garage. High-minded and patriotic, Stoner sought to devise a lightweight, easy-to-use weapon that could replace the M1s touted by soldiers in World War II. What he did create was a lethal handheld icon of the American century.
In American Gun, the veteran Wall Street Journal...