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1 online resource (1 audio file (9hr., 40 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Performer |
Read by Jonathan Davis. |
| Summary |
When Chicago's Mayor Michael Rodriguez starts a national campaign to ban handguns from America's cities, towns, and villages, Otis Cogsworth, the wealthy chairman and CEO of a huge arms company in Asabogue, Long Island, is worried. In response, he and lobbyist Sunny McCarthy convince an Arkansas congressman to introduce federal legislation mandating that every American must own a firearm. Events soon escalate. Asabogue's Mayor Lois Leibowitz passes an ordinance to ban guns in the town-right in Otis Cogsworth's backyard. Otis retaliates by orchestrating a recall election against Lois and Jack Steele, a rich town resident, runs against her. Even though the election is for the mayor of a small village on Long Island, Steele brings in the big guns of American politics to defeat Lois. Soon, thousands of pro-gun and anti-gun partisans descend on Asabogue, and the bucolic town becomes a tinderbox. Meanwhile, Washington politicians in both parties are caught between a mighty gun lobby and the absurdity of requiring that every American, with waivers for children under age four, carry a gun. What ensues is a discomfiting, hilarious indictment of the state of American politics. |
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Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Gun control -- United States -- Fiction.
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United States -- Politics and government -- Fiction.
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| Added Author |
Davis, Jonathan (Narrator), narrator.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781508254591 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1508254591 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT12650141 |
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