A haunting, fully illustrated account of gun violence in the nineteenth century that shows us how little things have changed
Peter Manseau holds a doctorate in religion from Georgetown University and is currently a fellow at the Smithsonian. He is the author of Rag and Bone, Songs for the Butcher's Daughter, Vows, and One Nation, Under Gods. He is the winner of the National Jewish Book Award, the American Library Association's Sophie Brody Medal for Outstanding Achievement in Jewish Literature, the Ribalow Prize for Fiction, and a 2012 National Endowment for the Arts Literature Fellowship, and he has also been shortlisted for the Center for Fiction's First Novel Prize and the Prix Medicis etranger, awarded to the best foreign novel published in France. He is a founding editor of Killing the Buddha, and he lives in Annapolis, Maryland.
"This is the deal that guns rights advocates have made with the
Devil: in exchange for unfettered access, they have abandoned a
moral universe in favor of nihilism. What Manseau's Melancholy
Accidents reveals above all is that while we may call ourselves a
nation under God, the god we worship first and foremost is
Fate."--The New Republic "An impressionistic narrative that shows
not only the history of gun use and misuse in the United States,
but also the way people have processed and commented on the deadly
unintended consequences of gun ownership." --Slate "Like something
from the mind of Edward Gorey... the collection would be grimly
funny if each of these anecdotes didn't involve real friends,
spouses and children getting shot... A macabre parade of blasted
bodies and ruined lives." --The Washington Post "Darkly comic... As
Peter Manseau makes clear, even before the Revolution we were
already a nation accustomed to accidentally shooting ourselves and
each other."--The Boston Globe "Startling."--New York Post
Praise for One Nation, Under Gods "Manseau is a brilliant writer of
great wit, curiosity, and learning." --Jeff Sharlet "One Nation,
Under Gods is a refreshing, compelling, and surprising
reexamination of our nation's history that puts lie to the
oft-quoted idea that America was founded as 'a Christian nation.'"
--Reza Aslan "With tales of secret faiths, false tolerance and
quiet yet formidable dissent, each chapter is a window onto lives
that were lived on the margin of Christian narratives . . . [A]
lively, refreshing account." --The New York Times Book Review "One
of those too-rare works of innovative history that also manage to
be works of literary art. Its series of interlocking stories, rich
in color and depth, combine to offer a new picture of America, both
past and present." --Adam Goodheart
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