| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 96.1

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Book Review

Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It. By Julia Keller. (New York: Viking, 2008. 294 pp. $25.95, ISBN 978-0-670-01894-9.)

Everyone has heard of the Gatling gun, but few know much about the man who invented it. So claims Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Julia Keller to justify her foray into interpreting nineteenth-century America history through Richard Jordan Gatling's life. She's probably right about the greater fame of gun than man. He has no full length biography, popular or academic, although the basic facts of his life are easy to learn, largely because his famous gun makes him an automatic encyclopedia entry.

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