Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius who Invented It
by Julia Keller
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- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Like new
- ISBN 10
- 0670018945
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018949
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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Synopsis
A provocative look at the life and times of the man who created the original weapon of mass destruction Drawing on her investigative and literary talents, Julia Keller offers a riveting account of the invention of the world's first working machine gun. Through her portrait of its misunderstood creator, Richard Jordan Gatling-who naively hoped that the overwhelming effectiveness of a multiple-firing weapon would save lives by decreasing the size of armies and reducing the number of soldiers needed to fight-Keller draws profound parallels to the scientists who would unleash America's atomic arsenal half a century later. The Gatling gun, in its combination of ingenuity, idealism, and destructive power, perfectly exemplifies the paradox of America's rise in the nineteenth century to a world superpower.
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- Bookseller
- Jerome Yanoff (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- JY206210
- Title
- Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel
- Author
- Julia Keller
- Format/Binding
- Excellent
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0670018945
- ISBN 13
- 9780670018949
- Publisher
- Viking Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2008
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