American Gunfight : The Plot to Kill President Truman--and the Shoot-out That Stopped It (Paperback)

from jwlowery

I enjoyed this book--the characters were a little tough to keep straight at times, but it was an interesting book about a period I know little about. I borrowed this book from the Stillwater Public Library. Read December 2006

from setnahkt

As the authors point out, very few people know that there was a serious assassination attempt against Harry Truman on November 1, 1950, and those that do often confuse it with the Puerto Rican nationalist attack on Congress in 1954. The attack figures heavily in the modern Secret Service mythos, ...

from hippypaul

In [The Face of Battle] John Keegan remarked that many people who write about war are very uncomfortable with the details of violence. The same is true of most accounts of political violence. [Stephen Hunter] understands firearms and the people who use them for good and for evil very well. This b...

from hippypaul

In [The Face of Battle] John Keegan remarked that many people who write about war are very uncomfortable with the details of violence. The same is true of most accounts of political violence. [Stephen Hunter] understands firearms and the people who use them for good and for evil very well. This b...