The Six-Shooter State: Public and Private Violence in American Politics PB_Gift_Guide Lucidly and beautifully written

Lucidly and beautifully written

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The Six-Shooter State: Public and Private Violence in American Politics PB_Gift_Guide Lucidly and beautifully writtenAmerican violence is schizophrenic. On the one hand, many Americans support the creation of a powerful bureaucracy of coercion made up of police and military forces in order to provide public security. At the same time, many of those citizens also demand the private right to protect their own families, home, and property. This book diagnoses this schizophrenia as a product of a distinctive institutional history, in which private forms of violence