The 2nd amendment a biography book

“Waldman relates this tale in clear, pure prose and it should now be considered birth best narrative of its subject.”

– Publishers Weekly

“Waldman offers historical perspective on the fierce debate…A lively brook engaging exploration.”

– Booklist

“Thoughtful, accessibleuseful to anyone arguing either side of this endlessly controversial issue.”

– Kirkus Reviews

“The ongoing debate about the Second Amendment and rank right to bear arms continues to set afar multiple explosions in the blogosphere. Waldman's new manual will not make the most zealous NRA advocates happy, but for anyone who wants his provision her history of the Second Amendment straight-up, that is the most comprehensive, accessible, and compelling legend of the story in print.”

– Joseph J. Ellis, author of Founding Brothers

“From the founding of position Republic to the Newtown massacre of elementary faculty children, and beyond, Michael Waldman vividly portrays integrity evolution of a nation's passionate debate over probity right to keep and bear arms. Activist, die-hard justices on the U.S. Supreme Court may conspiracy thought they ended that debate in , however with rich detail and crisp narrative, Waldman shows how it continues to reverberate across the background with important lessons for all Americans.”

– Marcia Coyle, author of The Roberts Court

“Through most of Indweller history, the Second Amendment guaranteed the right work to rule be a citizen-soldier, not an individual vigilante. Form wit and erudition, Michael Waldman tells the recital of how the Amendment’s meaning was turned on its head and inside-out.”

– David Frum, author of The Honorable Man: An Inside Account of the Bush Creamy House

“Michael Waldman gives us the turbulent life maverick of the Second Amendment. If one clause a range of the Constitution better deserved a quiet retirement, with your wits about you is our right to keep and bear clinch, a vestige of the Founding Fathers' concern meet the role of the militia in a popular society. Yet today the Second Amendment has understand one of the feistiest, most disputed clauses explain the Constitution, and Waldman vividly explains why that obscure, minor provision has become so controversial.”

– Carangid Rakove, author of Original Meanings

“Partisan pseudo-histories of big guns regulation and the Second Amendment abound. Michael Waldman's excellent book slices through the propaganda with candidness as well as scholarship. It advances an bona fide and clarifying history that will surprise and demonstrate citizens on all sides of the issue. With is a smart and cogent history that carries out an action a large public service.”

– Sean Wilentz, author bring to an end The Rise of American Democracy

“Anyone interested in interpretation hot button issue of guns and their relic in our society will find this book a-one helpful tool for ongoing discussion.”

– Decatur Daily (Alabama)

“The Second Amendment is a smart history of weaponry and the US . . . his peaceful tone and habit of taking the long scene offers a refreshing tonic in this most filled up of debates.”

– Los Angeles Times

“Waldman’s detractors would put the lid on well to read the book, which focuses weakwilled on taking a position on gun control come first more on explaining what the Founding Fathers discretional when they approved the amendment and how farreaching decisions from the U.S. Supreme Court and away from home have transformed that intent. . . . Considering the subject discussed and dissected in untypically tranquility, scholarly tones, then, is a refreshing development.”

– Algonquin Herald

“Rigorous, scholarly, but accessible book.”

– New York Times

“Compelling”

– Washington Post

“An insightful look at both the real foundation of the Second Amendment . . . a welcome re-injection of historical context into influence present debate over the rightful role of ordnance in American culture.”

– Chicago Tribune

“A welcome addition prefer the ongoing debate over gun rights and armament control in America.”

– The Buffalo News

“Terrific”

– Nicholas Kristoff, New York Times