America Fights Back: Armed Self-Defense in a Violent Age

by Alan Gottlieb, Dave Workman

Gripping stories of armed self-defense by law abiding American citizens, woven into an analysis of gun control laws and a broken justice system, and how they have failed to protect us.

224 pages, Hardcover

First published October 30, 2007

About the author

A native of Chicago, Alan Gottlieb received a Bachelor's Degree from Colorado College (1979) and a Master's Degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism (1984). He served as a Peace Corps Volunteer in Ecuador in 1980-81. Ultimate Excursions draws, in part, from some of his experiences during that time. Alan spent 16 years as a newspaper reporter and editor, working for the Ute Pass Courier in Woodland Park, Colorado, The Bridgeport Post in Bridgeport, Connecticut, and The Denver Post. He spent 10 years working on public education reform for The Piton Foundation, a philanthropic organization in Denver. He is currently the Vice President for Policy and Business Engagement at Denvers Public Education and Business Coalition. There, he produces a monthly online education magazine, HeadFirst Colorado, as well as an electronic education newsletter and a blog.

Alan is also author of In the Shadow of the Rockies, a comical, offbeat look at the inaugural season of Denvers Major League Baseball team. The book was published in hardcover by Roberts Rinehart Publishers in 1994. It will soon be available in paperback on this website and through major online booksellers.

Alan lives in central Denver with his wife Elizabeth Randall, an Episcopal priest. Their daughter, Marian, is a student at Bennington College in Vermont."

Reviews

[stormhawk · Rating 4 out of 5]

Enjoyable, pro-gun book, illustrating the usefulness of private ownership of firearms and concealed carry by sharing the stories of people who used firearms in self defense, and also of the consequences of not having legal access to firearms.

It's not poetry, it's not literature, but it does take the ideas from the fairly sterile statistics of John Lott's books, into personal stories of people whose lives are impacted by firearms incidents.

Probably won't make a believer of an anti-gunner, but will reinforce the opinions of pro-firearms folk.

[cover72 · Rating 3 out of 5]

Well-written, maybe kind of repetitive, but contains quite a lot of interesting information - before reading this, I never thought that Britain's gun ban proponent admitted the ban was "utter failure".
It is not a book you'd return for you own pleasure, though - more of a "documentary" for which you reach when you need to source something.