Bloodbath Nation

'Remarkably powerful.' Washington Post 'A compelling polemic, dismaying and often moving.' Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph No issue divides Americans more deeply than the debate around guns. Paul Auster begins his examination of gun violence by looking into his own past, knowing first-hand how families can be wrecked by a single deadly act. Bloodbath Nation traces the origins of America's obsession with guns through one hundred and eighty years of history. The armed conflict against the native population and the brutal methods used to protect the institution of slavery created a nation that has never fully come to terms with its own past. This fraught heritage still hovers over the social and political landscape of the present moment. Change is necessary but it seems all but impossible. Auster asks the ultimate question: what kind of country do Americans want to live in? The answer, he argues, will not come from the legislature, but from the American people themselves.

'Remarkably powerful.' Washington Post 'A compelling polemic, dismaying and often moving.' Jake Kerridge, Daily Telegraph No issue divides Americans more deeply than the debate around guns. Paul Auster begins his examination of gun violence by looking into his own past, knowing first-hand how families can be wrecked by a single deadly act. Bloodbath Nation traces the origins of America's obsession with guns through one hundred and eighty years of history. The armed conflict against the native population and the brutal methods used to protect the institution of slavery created a nation that has never fully come to terms with its own past. This fraught heritage still hovers over the social and political landscape of the present moment. Change is necessary but it seems all but impossible. Auster asks the ultimate question: what kind of country do Americans want to live in? The answer, he argues, will not come from the legislature, but from the American people themselves.

"Bloodbath Nation" by one of America's biggest intellectuals, Paul Auster, is a thought-provoking account of the USA's bloody and horrific history with guns. Every day over hundreds of people are killed by guns in the USA. 200 humans are at the same time wounded in events with guns. It is terryfing, blooddripping numbers, that excels every other countries of the western world by far. We have become used to new tragic school shootings, police violence and mass killings. But why? Why are guns so an essential part of the American identity? A change is on its way, and the whole America are deeply divided in the question about the right to bear arms. In the "Bloodbath Nation" Paus Austers unfold's America's horrifying history with gunviolence. His words are followed by Spencer Ostrander's black-white photos.

"Bloodbath Nation" by one of America's biggest intellectuals, Paul Auster, is a thought-provoking account of the USA's bloody and horrific history with guns. Every day over hundreds of people are killed by guns in the USA. 200 humans are at the same time wounded in events with guns. It is terryfing, blooddripping numbers, that excels every other countries of the western world by far. We have become used to new tragic school shootings, police violence and mass killings. But why? Why are guns so an essential part of the American identity? A change is on its way, and the whole America are deeply divided in the question about the right to bear arms. In the "Bloodbath Nation" Paus Austers unfold's America's horrifying history with gunviolence. His words are followed by Spencer Ostrander's black-white photos.