The Wrong Hands Popular Weapons Manuals and Their Historic Challenges to a Democratic Society 1st Edition Ann Larabee 0190201193 9780190201197

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• ISBN 10: 0190201193
• ISBN 13: 9780190201197
• Author: Ann Larabee

“[A] valuable account … The Wrong Hands brilliantly guides us through [the] challenges to American democracy.” -Howard P. Segal, Times Higher Education Gun ownership rights are treated as sacred in America, but what happens when dissenters moved beyond firearm possession into the realm of high explosives? How should the state react? Ann Larabee’s The Wrong Hands, a remarkable history of do-it-yourself weapons manuals from the late nineteenth century to the recent Boston Marathon bombing, traces how efforts to ferret out radicals willing to employ ever-more violent methods fueled the growth of the American security state. But over time, the government’s increasingly forceful targeting of violent books and ideas-not the weapons themselves-threatened to undermine another core American right: free expression. In the 1886 Haymarket Square bombing, a new form of revolutionary violence that had already made its mark in Europe arrived in the United States. At the subsequent trial, the judge allowed into evidence Johann Most’s infamous The Science of Revolutionary Warfare, which allegedly served as a cookbook for the accused. Most’s work was the first of a long line of explosive manuals relied on by radicals. By the 1960s, small publishers were drawing from publicly available US military sources to produce works that catered to a growing popular interest in DIY weapons making. The most famous was The Anarchist Cookbook (1971), which soon achieved legendary status-and a lasting presence in the courts

Table of contents:

1. The Science of Revolutionary Warfare

2. Sabotage

3. The Anarchist Cookbook

4. Hitmen

5. Monkeywrenching

6. Ka Fucking Boom

7. Vast Libraries of Jihad and Revolution

8. Weapons of Mass Destruction

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