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“Dan Baum’s curiosity about guns and his passion for them
pull you deep into this book before you even know how you got there. He has put
in the heft of a firearm and the smell of gunpowder and the heedless pleasure
of shooting and has produced a beautiful piece of writing.”
- Ian Frazier, New York Times bestelling author
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“An evenhanded and witty exposé of hardcore firearms culture
and gun control controversies…Baum hones and polishes his investigation like he
would an antique Winchester.”
- Boston Globe
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“The gun issue is about to find a new ambassador in Dan Baum…a
thoughtful, well-reasoned antidote to the polarized hysteria that currently
passes for a national gun debate.”
- San Francisco Chronicle
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“Smart and informative—an education for anyone the slightest
bit curious about why gun owners are so passionate about their guns. Dan Baum’s
stories are alive, engaging, and earnest.”
- New York Journal of Books
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“Vivid…Baum can still shoot, as demonstrated by a riveting
chapter on some arduous gunfight training he endures. But more important, Baum
can write. Schlepping among the gun lovers with this guy is unfailingly diverting
as well as illuminating.”
- Newsday
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“As a writer, Baum doesn’t have it in him to lay down a dull
sentence. His sketches of the people he meets (not all of them white, and not
all of them guys) are charming and funny…Wise, considered, delectably written,
fun to read, and wholly lacking in tendentiousness, and thus likely to deepen
anyone’s thinking on the subject.”
- Bloomberg News
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“Dan Baum may be exactly what America needs right now: a
liberal journalist with a gun…For those who prefer humorous, literate, and
honest discussion about [guns] to frothy ranting, Gun Guys will hit the spot.”
- Dallas News
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“[Gun Guys] is interesting and funny. But most of all it is
enlightening.”
- Beaufort Observer
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“[A] balanced accounting of both sides of America’s gun
issue, and while Baum doesn’t have all the answers, his solution that both
sides come together to promote gun safety is both admirable and prudent.”
- Publishers Weekly
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“Engrossing…a thoughtful corrective to the mutual
ideological hysteria surrounding the issue of guns in America.”
- Kirkus Reviews
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“Gun Guys is the sort of readable, information-rich book
that could change minds and help bridge the huge national divide over guns.”
- BookPage
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“Dan Baum armed himself with an open mind and a .38
Detective Special to see what the armed lifestyle is about. Taking
participatory journalism to a debate that rivals abortion as a hot-button
topic, he emerged with observations that need to be read by both sides of the
highly polarized issue.”
- Massad Ayoob, internationally-known firearms and self-defense instructor
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“He has written the most original book on the gun culture
yet—fair, funny, and as informed as it is iconoclastic…Gun Guys is an unlikely bridge for our too-polarized time.”
- Steve Bodio, author of Good Guns Again, and An Eternity of Eagles