Author of Strain of Violence (OUP/USA 1975)
"Richard Maxwell Brown has been a leading scholar of American
violence since the late 1960s, when the turmoil following the
assassination of Martin Luther King and Bobby Kennedy led a
presidential commission to publish Brown's interpretation in
Violence in America. Now, in the wake of the Persian Gulf War,
Brown looks at line-drawing in the sand by the Reagan-Bush
administrations, and also at contemporary urban shoot-outs in
racial and drug-related
warfare, and traces their roots in the western gunfight and
frontier vigilantism."--Hugh Davis Graham, Holland N. McTyeire
Professor of American History, Vanderbilt University
"A fascinating and provocative book. Not only is it an
authoritative and engrossing examination of violence on the
American frontier and in American society at large, but in American
jurisprudence as well. Brown, moreover, relates his history to the
present, giving illuminating depth and continuity to one of the
nation's most persistently severe problems. It will stimulate and
inform scholar and layman alike."--Robert M. Utley, author of High
Noon in
Lincoln and Billy the Kid
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