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American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill President Truman--and the Shoot-out That...
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- Book Title
- American Gunfight : the Plot to Kill President Truman--And the Shoot-Out That Stopped It
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- Simon & Schuster
- Item Length
- 9.2 in
- Publication Year
- 2007
- Format
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- Language
- English
- Illustrator
- Yes
- Item Height
- 1.3 in
- Genre
- True Crime, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography, History
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- Murder / General, Thrillers / General, General, Presidents & Heads of State, United States / General
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- Number of Pages
- 384 Pages
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Simon & Schuster
ISBN-10
0743260694
ISBN-13
9780743260695
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Book Title
American Gunfight : the Plot to Kill President Truman--And the Shoot-Out That Stopped It
Number of Pages
384 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Murder / General, Thrillers / General, General, Presidents & Heads of State, United States / General
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
True Crime, Fiction, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Trade Paperback
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Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
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"The definitive history of the attempted murder of Harry S. Truman.... Truman's near-killing is a good subject for many reasons, including its disappearance into the black hole of our amnesia.... Hooked, the reader begins a journey that weaves...across the lives of all protagonists, pulled by fate toward the bloody confrontation."-- Ted Windmer,The Washington Post, "Hunter and Bainbridge's handling of the recorded events is not only convincing but compelling."-- "Publishers Weekly", "The definitive history of the attempted murder of Harry S. Truman.... Truman's near-killing is a good subject for many reasons, including its disappearance into the black hole of our amnesia.... Hooked, the reader begins a journey that weaves...across the lives of all protagonists, pulled by fate toward the bloody confrontation." -- Ted Windmer, The Washington Post, "Extensively researched and mellifluously told...American Gunfightis a splendid read."-- Carl Schoettler,Baltimore Sun, "Hunter and Bainbridge's handling of the recorded events is not only convincing but compelling."--Publishers Weekly, "Hunter and Bainbridge's handling of the recorded events is not only convincing but compelling." -- Publishers Weekly, "Extensively researched and mellifluously told... American Gunfight is a splendid read." -- Carl Schoettler, Baltimore Sun, "The definitive history of the attempted murder of Harry S. Truman.... Truman's near-killing is a good subject for many reasons, including its disappearance into the black hole of our amnesia.... Hooked, the reader begins a journey that weaves...across the lives of all protagonists, pulled by fate toward the bloody confrontation."-- Ted Windmer, "The Washington Post", "Extensively researched and mellifluously told..."American Gunfight" is a splendid read."-- Carl Schoettler, "Baltimore Sun"
Table Of Content
Contents Authors' Note Introduction 1 A Drive Around Washington 2Griselio Agonistes 3 Revolution 4 The Odd Couple 5 Mr. Gonzales and Mr. De Silva Go to Washington 6 Early Morning 7 Baby Starches the Shirts 8 Toad 9 The New Guy 10 The Buick Guy 11 The Guns 12 The Ceremony 13 Indian Summer 14 The Big Walk 15 Oscar 16 "It Did Not Go Off" 17 Pappy 18 The Next Ten Seconds 19 Resurrection Man 20 So Loud, So Fast 21 Upstairs at Blair 22 Downstairs at Blair 23 Borinquen 24 Oscar Alone 25 The End's Run 26 Good Hands 27 The Colossus Rhoads 28 Oscar Goes Down 29 The Second Assault 30 Pimienta 31 Point-Blank 32 The Man Who Loved Guns 33 The Dark Visitors 34 Mortal Danger 35 The Neighbor 36 American Gunfight 37 The Good Samaritan 38 The Policemen's Wives 39 The Scene 40 Inside the Soccer Shoe 41 Who Shot Oscar? 42 The Roundup 43 Taps 44 Oscar on Trial 45 Deep Conspiracy 46 Cressie Does Her Duty 47 Oscar Speaks 48 - - R - I - - Epilogue: Destinies Source Notes Bibliography Acknowledgments Index
Synopsis
This electrifying book is the first full account of the historical day fanatical suicide-martyrs attempted to assassinate President Harry S. Truman. Oscar Collazo and Griselio Torresola viewed themselves as soldiers participating in the violent campaign for an independent Puerto Rico., November 1, 1950 -- an unseasonably hot afternoon in sleepy Washington, D.C. At 2: 00 P.M. at his temporary residence in Blair House, President Harry Truman takes a nap. At 2: 20 P.M., two Puerto Rican natives approach from different directions. Oscar Collazo, a respected metal polisher and family man, and Griselio Torresola, an unemployed salesman, don't look dangerous, not in their new suits and hats, not in their calm, purposeful demeanor, not in their slow, unexcited approach. What the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent guarding the president cannot guess is that under each man's coat is a 9mm German automatic pistol and in each head, a dream of assassin's glory., November 1, 1950 -- an unseasonably hot afternoon in sleepy Washington, D.C. At 2:00 P.M. at his temporary residence in Blair House, President Harry Truman takes a nap. At 2:20 P.M., two Puerto Rican natives approach from different directions. Oscar Collazo, a respected metal polisher and family man, and Griselio Torresola, an unemployed salesman, don't look dangerous, not in their new suits and hats, not in their calm, purposeful demeanor, not in their slow, unexcited approach. What the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent guarding the president cannot guess is that under each man's coat is a 9mm German automatic pistol and in each head, a dream of assassin's glory., A fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event--the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D C, that saved the president's life. Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner and New York Times bestselling novelist Stephen Hunter, and John Bainbridge, Jr., an experienced journalist and lawyer, American Gunfight is at once a groundbreaking work of meticulous historical research and the vivid and dramatically told story of an act of terrorism that almost succeeded. They have pieced together, at last, the story of the conspiracy that nearly doomed the president and how a few good men--ordinary guys who were willing to risk their lives in the line of duty--stopped it. It begins on November 1, 1950, an unseasonably hot afternoon in the sleepy capital. At 2:00 P.M. in his temporary residence at Blair House, the president of the United States takes a nap. At 2:20 P.M., two men approach Blair House from different directions. Oscar Collazo, a respected metal polisher and family man, and Griselio Torresola, an unemployed salesman, don't look dangerous, not in their new suits and hats, not in their calm, purposeful demeanor, not in their slow, unexcited approach. What the three White House policemen and one Secret Service agent cannot guess is that under each man's coat is a 9mm automatic pistol and in each head, a dream of assassin's glory. At point-blank range, Collazo and then Torresola draw and fire and move toward the president of the United States. Hunter and Bainbridge tell the story of that November day with narrative power and careful attention to detail. They are the first to report on the inner workings of this conspiracy; they examine the forces that led the perpetrators to conceive the plot. The authors also tell the story of the men themselves, from their youth and the worlds in which they grew up to the women they loved and who loved them to the moment the gunfire erupted. Their telling commemorates heroism--the quiet commitment to duty that in some moments of crisis sees some people through an ordeal, even at the expense of their lives.
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