Violence and Values in American History and Society
by
Richard Maxwell Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 1992
In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West's first notable "walkdown." One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Bernhard Goetz shot four threatening young men in a New York subway car. Apart from gunfire, what could the two events possibly have in...