Inside the NRA: Armed and Dangerous--An Expose

by Jack Anderson

An investigative journalist goes behind the scenes of the National Rifle Association, providing an expose of the controversial organization and its secrets

Genres: Politics, Social Science

180 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1996

About the author

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Jack Anderson began writing the column "Washington Merry-Go-Round" in 1969. In 1973 he won a Pulitzer Prize for exposing Richard Nixon's lies about the U.S. tilt in the India-Pakistan War. His column was syndicated in eight hundred newspapers nationwide. He had a national talk radio program, worked as the Washington bureau chief for Parade magazine, and was the founder of the Young Astronauts Program. He is the author of Stormin' Norman and Washington Exposé. He passed way in 2006.

Robert Westbrook is the author of the Howard Moon Deer Mysteries and the Left-Handed Policeman series, as well as many works of nonfiction. He lives in New Mexico.

Reviews

[Aketzle · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent research and presentation of the issues involved with our country's decades-long struggle to enact some kind of reasonable gun control measures to help stem the tide of gun violence. The NRA has done more than most people or organizations to kill any effort at even the most reasonable gun control efforts, and this book lays out in details its strategy over the years, the various times in history that the NRA has opposed/killed legislation that might have helped, the fundraising component to the "Pry it from my cold, dead hand" rhetoric and frenzy that the organization helped foment, and more. I don't find the book to be partisan at all, though the author has clearly drawn a conclusion about the NRA as an organization, and clearly supports some reasonable gun control measures. If that's enough to make you discount the book as biased, then I guess you're not open to serious debate. Even if that's the case, though, you should probably know more about this organization if you consider yourself a supporter, or more importantly, if you're a paying member, because they are using your name as a member to defend what they do in Washington. You deserve to know what that is.

[J R · Rating 5 out of 5]

Very enlightening expose by Jack Anderson.