No Duty to Retreat: Violence and Values in American History and Society

by Richard Maxwell Brown

Book Overview

In 1865, Wild Bill Hickok killed Dave Tutt in a Missouri public square in the West's first notable "walkdown." One hundred and twenty-nine years later, Bernhard Goetz shot four threatening young men in a New York subway car. Apart from gunfire, what could the two events possibly have in common? Goetz, writes Richard Maxwell Brown, was acquitted of wrongdoing in the spirit of a uniquely American view of self-defense, a view forged in frontier gunfights...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195045106
• ISBN13: 9780195045109
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.6"