Book description
The first major biography of "the Thomas Edison of guns," John Moses Browning, a visionary inventor who designed the modern handgun and whose astonishing array of firearms armed American troops since before World War I, proved decisive in World War II, and became integral to American culture.
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You don't have to think you're interested in guns to find this book interesting. I was astonished at how much Browning did—and how well he did it. Quite the character, with an outsized effect on American gun-making—which affects more than you'd think (WWII, for instance).
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