[Redleg Duke]

But...(sniffle)...he meant well...and after...(sniffle)...all...(sniffle)...it was for the...(sniffle)...children!

[skeeter]

Liberal advocacy journalists are masters of hit 'n run reporting. Apostles of the Big Lie, they seldom return to the scene of their crimes.

[L.N. Smithee]

Excellent article. Thanks for posting it. It's instantly one of my bookmarks!

[KC Burke]

New York Review of Books has become sooooo leftist its pitiful. I may be dropping it as it is predictible on matters like this.

[M Kehoe]

KABOOM!

5.56mm

[FreeTally]

It doesn't matter if his butt-kissing leftist buddies don't admit it; every person who reviewed it dismissed it as purely fraudulent garbage. Not one person concluded that it was in any way historically accurate, which is not surprising considering his "evidence" were documents destroyed in the San Franciso earthquake/fire.

[freekitty]

If it walks like a duck and quacks like a duck, well......

[GSWarrior]

He's a career-suicide bomber.

[FreeTally]

Also, I think there is a question that has not been properly addressed. The author spent a great deal of time writing a book that he knows is a fraud. What is the motivation to do so? I think the proper question is "Who wants Americans disarmed so badly that they would get this guy to spend all this time concocting fake research?". Find out where his funding came from and who specifically authorized/asked him to "research" gun history.

[Cicero]

Just a couple of months ago Belisle was awarded a large grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, courtesy of the Newberry Library of Chicago, which had several of these grants at its disposal. The library refused to release the names of the jury of academic peers who decided to give this generous reward to a notorious plagiarist.

The NEH is a sister organization to the better-known NEA, both sponsored by the taxpayers.

[krb]

The brave minuteman armed with his trusty rifle, Bellesiles told us, was mostly a myth

Of course it was a myth.

The minutemen used smooth-bore muskets. :-)

[Oztrich Boy]

Also credit where credit is due department

Stranger in a Strange Land: The Scandal of Arming America.
A prizewinning work of history doesn't stand up to examination