April 7, 2012
The Biography of a New American Icon: Paul Barrett’s Glock
Ford. Dell. Glock? Actually, yes. Because this Austrian gun manufacturer has become so deeply embedded in modern American culture that Gaston Glock's name has been synonymous with "gun" to a whole generation. Paul M. Barrett's book, Glock: The Rise of America's Gun, is a compulsively readable story about this cultural icon and its inventor.
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