AMERICAN RIFLE(ISBN=) 英文原版

　　George Washington insisted that his portrait be painted with
one. Daniel Boone created a legend with one. Abraham Lincoln shot
them on the White House lawn. And Teddy Roosevelt had his specially
customized.
　　In this first-of-its-kind book, historian Alexander Rose delivers
a colorful, engrossing biography of an American icon: the rifle.
Drawing on the words of foot soldiers, inventors, and presidents,
based on extensive new research, and spanning from the Revolution
to the present day, American Rifle is a balanced, wonderfully
entertaining history of the rifle and its place in American
culture.

　　Born in the United States, Alexander Rose was raised in
Australia and Britain. A military historian and former journalist,
he is the author of Washington’s Spies: The Story of America’s
First Spy Ring, and his writing has appeared in the
New York Observer, the Washington Post, Studies in
Intelligence, and many other publications.

Chapter 1: THE MYSTERY OF WASHINGTON’S RIFLE
Chapter 2: THE RIFLE AND THE REVOLUTION
Chapter 3: THE RISE OF THE MACHINES 
Chapter 4: THE BIG BANG 
Chapter 5: THE “GREWSOME GRAVEYARD”
Chapter 6: THE ARMY OF MARKSMEN AND THESOLDIER’S FAITH  
189
Chapter 7: THE SMOKELESS REVOLUTION
Chapter 8: ROOSEVELT’S RIFLE  255
Chapter 9: THE PATHS NOT TAKEN  281
Chapter 10: THE GREAT BLUNDERBUSS BUNGLE
Chapter 11: GUN OF THE SPACE AGE  359
Chapter 12: THE RIFLE OF THE FUTURE  391
NOTE ON SOURCES
NOTES
PHOTO CREDITS AND PERMISSIONS
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
INDEX