Lethal Passage

Lethal Passage
By:Erik Larson
Published on 2011-07-27 by Vintage

This devastating book illuminates America's gun culture -- its manufacturers, dealers, buffs, and propagandists -- but also offers concrete solutions to our national epidemic of death by firearm. It begins with an account of a crime that is by now almost commonplace: on December 16, 1988, sixteen-year-old Nicholas Elliot walked into his Virginia high school with a Cobray M-11/9 and several hundred rounds of ammunition tucked in his backpack. By day's end, he had killed one teacher and severely wounded another. In Lethal Passage Erik Larson shows us how a disturbed teenager was able to buy a weapon advertised as |the gun that made the eighties roar.| The result is a book that can -- and should -- save lives, and that has already become an essential text in the gun-control debate. With a new afterword. |Touches on all aspects of the gun issue in this country. Gives great voice to that feeling...that something real must be done.| --San Diego Union-Tribune |One of the most readable anti-gun treatises in years.| --Washington Post Book World

This Book was ranked at 15 by Google Books for keyword Lethal White.

Book ID of Lethal Passage's Books is FzV82AD3GlQC, Book which was written byErik Larson

Book which was published by Vintage since 2011-07-27 have ISBNs, ISBN 13 Code is 9780307803313 and ISBN 10 Code is 0307803317

Book which have "304 Pages" is Printed at BOOK under CategorySocial Science

This Book was rated by 3 Raters and have average rate at "2.0"

eBook Version Availability Status at PDF is falseand in ePub is true

Book Preview