American Rifle: A Biography

New York: Delacorte Press, 2008. First Edition. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Very Good. 6x1x9. First edition. Jacket edges bumped and rubbed. 2008 Hard Cover. 495 pp. "George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially customized. In this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle. Drawing on the words of foot soldiers, inventors, and presidents, based on extensive new research, and spanning from the Revolution to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully entertaining history of the rifle and its place in American culture.