No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society

by Richard Maxwell Brown

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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 common? Goetz, writes Richard Maxwell Brown, was acquitted of wrongdoing in the spirit of a uniquely American view of self-defense, a view forged in frontier gunfights...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0195045106

ISBN13:9780195045109

Release Date:January 1992

Publisher:Oxford University Press

Length:280 Pages

Weight:1.00 lbs.

Dimensions:0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"

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Americas Business & Finance History Industrial Management & Leadership Political Science Politics & Social Sciences Social Science Social Sciences Sociology

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