{"product_id":"gun-crusaders-9780814795507","title":"Gun Crusaders","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating inside look at how the four-million member National Rifle Association and its committed members see gun control as the road to socialism\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMelzer brilliantly integrates deep personal observation with data and theory to construct a three-dimensional portrait of the modern gun rights movement. In a wonderfully written, engaging, and scrupulously fair narrative, Melzers book makes a major contribution to our understanding of this tumultuous social movement and also happens to be a really good read. It's fresh, clear-eyed, and fair. Anyone wanting to understand the gun movement must read this book. -- Robert J. Spitzer,author of The Politics of Gun Control\u003cbr\u003eMelzer takes us inside the NRA to reveal that more than gun controlmuch moreis at stake: a way of life and a definition of manhood that members feel is disintegrating in their hands... [This is] a book that is both balanced and brave, critical and yet compassionate to men who have so lost their way that their guns offer their last tenuous hold on their identity. -- Michael Kimmel,author of Guyland\u003cbr\u003eThis book is well written, and raises interesting issues about the transformation of interest groups in a period of polarized politics. -- Clyde Wilcox * Political Science Quarterly *\u003cbr\u003eThe author argues a very credible thesis: that the National Rifle Association (NRA) is more than a single-interest group defending the right to own and bear arms. The NRA should also be understood as a social movement organization dedicated broadly to preserving traditional, conservative values. * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments  Preface  Introduction Part I Defending Guns, Defending Masculinity 1 Frontier Masculinity, America's \"Gun Culture,\" and the NRA 2 Why a Gun Movement? Part II Talking Guns, Talking Culture War  3 Framing Threats to Gun Rights 4 Under Attack 5 Fighting the Culture WarsPart III Committing to the NRA, Committing to the Right  6 The Politics of Commitment  7 Right and Far-Right Moral Politics  8 The Ties That Bind  Epilogue: Tomorrow's NRA  Appendix: Studying the NRA  Notes Index  About the Author","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884688159063,"sku":"9780814795507","price":62.9,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780814795507.jpg?v=1722533034","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/gun-crusaders-9780814795507","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}