The Way of the Gun
A Bloody Journey into the World of Firearms
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Matthew Waterson
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Iain Overton
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We live in the Age of the Gun. Around the globe, firearms are ubiquitous and define countless lives; in some places, it's even easier to get a gun than a glass of clean water. In others, it's legal to carry concealed firearms into bars and schools. In The Way of the Gun, Iain Overton embarks on a remarkable journey to understand how these weapons have become an integral part of 21st century life, beyond the economics of supply and demand.
Overton travels through more than 25 countries around the world and meets with ER doctors dealing with gun trauma, SWAT team leaders, gang members, and weapons smugglers. From visiting the most dangerous city in the world outside a war zone to the largest gun show on earth, his journey crosses paths with safari hunters and gun-makers, paralyzed victims and smooth-talking lobbyists. Weaving together their stories, Overton offers a portrait of distinct yet deeply connected cultures affected by the gun and from them draws out powerful insights into our weaponized world. Ultimately, he unearths some hard truths about the terrible realities of war and gun crime, and what can be done to stop it.
Eloquent and accessible, infused with compassion and humor, The Way of the Gun is a riveting expose about guns and human beings that offers an eye-opening portrait of our time.
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Is America destined to always be a violent nation? This sweeping history by U.S. senator Chris Murphy explores the origins of our violent impulses, the roots of our obsession with firearms, and the mythologies that prevent us from confronting our national crisis. In many ways, the United States sets the pace for other nations to follow. Yet on the most important human concern - the need to keep ourselves and our loved ones safe from physical harm - America isn’t a leader.
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2 out of 5 stars
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America needs more white men like Chris Murphy.
- De jnlv68 en 09-20-20
De: Chris Murphy
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Say Nothing
- A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
- De: Patrick Radden Keefe
- Narrado por: Matthew Blaney
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 8,031
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 7,082
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 7,032
Jean McConville's abduction was one of the most notorious episodes of the vicious conflict known as The Troubles. Everyone in the neighborhood knew the I.R.A. was responsible. But in a climate of fear and paranoia, no one would speak of it. In 2003, five years after an accord brought an uneasy peace to Northern Ireland, a set of human bones was discovered on a beach. McConville's children knew it was their mother when they were told a blue safety pin was attached to the dress--with so many kids, she had always kept it handy for diapers or ripped clothes.
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5 out of 5 stars
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On a par with I'll Be Gone in the Dark, plus...
- De Grace O'Malley en 03-01-19
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Point of Impact
- De: Stephen Hunter
- Narrado por: Beau Bridges
- Duración: 3 h y 4 m
- Versión resumida
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General4 out of 5 stars 1,312
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 1,018
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 1,014
He was one the best Marine snipers in Vietnam. Today, 20 years later, all Bob Lee Swagger wants is to be left alone. But a shadowy military organization seduces him into one last mission for his country - unaware until too late that the game is rigged. The assassination plot is executed to perfection until Bob Lee Swagger, alleged lone gunman, comes out of the operation alive, the target of a nationwide manhunt, with his only allies a woman he just met and a discredited FBI agent.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Beau Bridges ruined it for me...
- De Dawn en 05-07-15
De: Stephen Hunter
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The Patient Assassin
- A True Tale of Massacre, Revenge, and India's Quest for Independence
- De: Anita Anand
- Narrado por: Anita Anand
- Duración: 10 h y 48 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 48
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 46
The “compelling [and] vivid” (The New York Times Book Review) true story of a man who claimed to be a survivor of a 1919 British massacre in India, his elaborate 20-year plan for revenge, and the mix of truth and legend that made him a hero to hundreds of millions.
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4 out of 5 stars
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more interesting history
- De Autodidact en 09-07-19
De: Anita Anand
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Gangster Warlords
- De: Ioan Grillo
- Narrado por: James Cameron Stewart
- Duración: 14 h y 55 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 358
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 322
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In a ranch south of Texas, the man known as The Executioner dumps 500 body parts in metal barrels. In Brazil's biggest city, a mysterious prisoner orders hit men to gun down 41 police officers and prison guards in two days. In Southern Mexico a meth maker is venerated as a saint while enforcing Old Testament justice on his enemies. A new kind of criminal kingpin has arisen: part CEO, part terrorist, and part rock star, unleashing guerrilla attacks, strong-arming governments, and taking over much of the world's trade in narcotics, guns, and humans.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good analysis and interpretation, but...
- De James H. McDonald en 10-30-19
De: Ioan Grillo
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Unforgetting
- A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas
- De: Roberto Lovato
- Narrado por: Roberto Lovato
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
- Versión completa
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General5 out of 5 stars 94
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 77
An urgent, no-holds-barred tale of gang life, guerrilla warfare, intergenerational trauma, and interconnected violence between the United States and El Salvador, Roberto Lovato’s memoir excavates family history and reveals the intimate stories beneath headlines about gang violence and mass Central American migration, one of the most important, yet least-understood humanitarian crises of our time - and one in which the perspectives of Central Americans in the United States have been silenced and forgotten.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Difficult to hear but important to know.
- De M. Lindquist en 12-18-20
De: Roberto Lovato
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State of War
- MS-13 and El Salvador's World of Violence
- De: William Wheeler
- Narrado por: William Wheeler
- Duración: 3 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 37
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 34
Born in Los Angeles, the gang MS-13 was founded in the 1980s by Salvadoran refugees who had been hardened in a civil war stoked by American foreign policy. Foreign correspondent William Wheeler tracks MS-13 from LA, where he meets the founders of the gang, to El Salvador, where three generations of Salvadorans have been drawn into an escalating cycle of conflict. State of War tells the tragic story of a brutal civil war that has never ended.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great insight!
- De jose flores en 05-19-23
De: William Wheeler
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They Will Have to Die Now
- Mosul and the Fall of the Caliphate
- De: James Verini
- Narrado por: Ray Porter
- Duración: 9 h y 40 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 121
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 114
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 115
James Verini arrived in Iraq in the summer of 2016 to write about life in the Islamic State. He stayed to cover the jihadis' last great stand, the Battle of Mosul, not knowing it would go on for nearly a year, nor that it would become, in the words of the Pentagon, "the most significant urban combat since WWII." They Will Have to Die Now takes the listener into the heart of the conflict against the most lethal insurgency of our time. We see unspeakable violence, improbable humanity, and occasional humor.
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5 out of 5 stars
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really solid performance keeps you engaged
- De TFMethane en 04-12-21
De: James Verini
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The Greatest Evil Is War
- De: Chris Hedges
- Narrado por: Eunice Wong
- Duración: 5 h y 7 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 60
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Narración:5 out of 5 stars 55
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 55
In fifteen short chapters, Chris Hedges astonishes us with his clear and cogent argument against war, not on philosophical grounds or through moral arguments, but in an irrefutable stream of personal encounters with the victims of war, from veterans and parents to gravely wounded American serviceman who served in the Iraq War, to survivors of the Holocaust, to soldiers in the Falklands War, among others. Hedges reported from Sarajevo, and was in the Balkans to witness the collapse of the Soviet Union.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another amazing title by an amazing journalist.
- De Zzzing en 12-28-22
De: Chris Hedges
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The Good Assassin
- How a Mossad Agent and a Band of Survivors Hunted Down the Butcher of Latvia
- De: Stephan Talty
- Narrado por: Stefan Rudnicki
- Duración: 9 h y 9 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 239
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 208
The untold story of an Israeli spy’s epic journey to bring the notorious Butcher of Latvia to justice - a case that altered the fates of all ex-Nazis.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful: A complete history wrapped in a story
- De Aaron en 04-22-20
De: Stephan Talty
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The Nine Lives of Pakistan
- Dispatches from a Precarious State
- De: Declan Walsh
- Narrado por: Roger Clark
- Duración: 11 h y 13 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 103
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 87
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 87
Declan Walsh is one of the New York Times's most distinguished international correspondents. His electrifying portrait of Pakistan over a tumultuous decade captures the sweep of this strange, wondrous, and benighted country through the dramatic lives of nine fascinating individuals. On assignment as the country careened between crises, Walsh traveled from the raucous port of Karachi to the salons of Lahore, and from Baluchistan to the mountains of Waziristan. He met a diverse cast of extraordinary Pakistanis....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A Fascinating Look at a Troubled Country
- De Dipam en 07-11-21
De: Declan Walsh
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Shatter the Nations
- ISIS and the War for the Caliphate
- De: Mike Giglio
- Narrado por: Robert Fass
- Duración: 9 h y 56 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 54
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 43
The battle to defeat ISIS was an unremittingly brutal and dystopian struggle, a multi-sided war of gritty local commandos and militias. Mike Giglio takes listeners to the heart of this shifting, uncertain conflict, capturing the essence of a modern war. At its peak, ISIS controlled a self-styled "caliphate" the size of Great Britain, with a population cast into servitude that numbered in the millions. Its territory spread across Iraq and Syria as its influence stretched throughout the wider world.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Most important book for the coming decade
- De Peter A. en 01-01-20
De: Mike Giglio
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Let It Bang
- A Young Black Man’s Reluctant Odyssey into Guns
- De: RJ Young
- Narrado por: RJ Young
- Duración: 4 h y 17 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 41
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 39
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 39
The most RJ Young knew about guns was that they could get him killed. Until, recently married to a white woman and in desperate need of a way to relate to his gun-loving father-in-law, Young does the unimaginable: He accepts Charles's gift of a Glock. Let It Bang is the compelling story of the author's unexpected obsession - he eventually becomes an NRA-certified pistol instructor - and of his deep dive into the heart of America's gun culture: what he sees as the domino effect of White fear, White violence, Black fear, rinse, repeat.
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4 out of 5 stars
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A personal story
- De Country Pete en 11-05-18
De: RJ Young
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Un-American
- A Soldier's Reckoning of Our Longest War
- De: Erik Edstrom
- Narrado por: Christopher Ragland
- Duración: 10 h y 20 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 28
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 22
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Historia5 out of 5 stars 22
Un-American is a hybrid of social commentary and memoir that exposes how blind support for war exacerbates the problems it’s intended to resolve, devastates the people allegedly being helped and diverts assets from far larger threats like climate change. Un-American is a revolutionary act, offering a blueprint for redressing America’s relationship with patriotism, the military and military spending.
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5 out of 5 stars
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This Veteran supports many of the points in this book!
- De Kevin H. en 06-26-22
De: Erik Edstrom
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Nemesis
- One Man and the Battle for Rio
- De: Misha Glenny
- Narrado por: Zach Villa
- Duración: 9 h y 18 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 59
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 49
Nemesis is the story of an ordinary man who became the king of the largest slum in Rio, the head of a drug cartel, and perhaps Brazil's most wanted criminal. It's a gripping tale of gold hunters and evangelical pastors, bent police and rich-kid addicts, quixotic politicians and drug lords with math degrees. Traversing through rain forests and high-security prisons, filthy slums and glittering shopping malls, this is also the story of how change came to Brazil.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Amazing sobriety
- De Fabio Azeredo en 04-29-16
De: Misha Glenny
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Midnight in Mexico
- A Reporter's Journey through a Country's Descent into Darkness
- De: Alfredo Corchado
- Narrado por: Timothy Andres Pabon
- Duración: 9 h y 12 m
- Versión completa
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 431
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 382
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 378
Noted Mexican American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juarez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. One night, Corchado received a tip that he could be the next target of the Zetas, a violent paramilitary group - and that he had 24 hours to find out if the threat was true. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man's quest to report the truth of his country - as he races to save his own life.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Fascinating & suspenseful historical non-fiction!
- De Ruth Barrie en 06-30-19
De: Alfredo Corchado
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Murder City
- Ciudad Juarez and The Global Economy's New Killing Fields
- De: Charles Bowden
- Narrado por: Charles Bowden
- Duración: 8 h y 46 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 168
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 122
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 120
Charles Bowden writes, “this book is not about how the world ends but how a new world is being born.” Murder City explores this new world, focusing on the idea that Mexico is collapsing into a permanent culture of violence. Bowden focuses on Ciudad Juarez, which lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, last year alone 1,607 people were murdered, a number that is set to accelerate in 2009.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Listen Up!
- De Roy en 04-04-10
De: Charles Bowden
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre The Way of the Gun
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Total2 out of 5 stars
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Ejecución3 out of 5 stars
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Historia2 out of 5 stars
- Timothy L.
- 02-11-20
Very Biased View of Guns in the World
The author starts off making an attempt to be unbiased in his report, but spent the entire book discussing the negative aspects of gun use, by criminals, by cops, and by military as a source of power. The author failed to interview anyone who used a gun to lawfully defend themselves or anyone who trains to. He fails to mention that females and minorities are accounting for a majority of the growth in the industry, and simply focuses on reinforcing stereotypes rather than attempting to remove his own bias.
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