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The Second: Race and Guns in a Fatally Unequal America

Top of the pile

75

/100

I Index Overall Rating

Readers

88/100

Critics

44/100

Scholars

93/100

Author:

Carol Anderson

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Publishing

Date:

June 1, 2021

Historian Carol Anderson explains the impact of the Second Amendment, how it was designed, and how it has consistently been constructed to keep African Americans powerless and vulnerable.

What The Reviewers Say

Randall Kennedy,
The New York Times Book Review
... written with verve, painted with broad strokes and dotted with memorable anecdotes and vivid quotations.
Rebekah Kati,
Library Journal
An important but too-compact analysis that might leave readers wishing for more. Like Anderson’s previous works, this is essential for everyone interested in U.S. history..

Kirkus
... powerful.

Publishers Weekly
... illuminating.