American Gunfight: The Plot to Kill Harry Truman--and the Shoot-out That Stopped It
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AMERICAN GUNFIGHT is the fast-paced, definitive, and breathtakingly suspenseful account of an extraordinary historical event the attempted assassination of President Harry Truman in November of 1950 by two Puerto Rican Nationalists and the bloody shoot-out in the streets of Washington, D.C., that saved the president's life.Written by Pulitzer Prize-winner Stephen Hunter and John Bainbridge, Jr., an experienced journalist and lawyer, AMERICAN GUNFIGHT is at once a groundbreaking work of meticulous historical research and the vivid and dramatically told story of an act of terrorism that almost succeeded. They have pieced together, at last, the story of the conspiracy that nearly doomed the president and how a few good mean ordinary guys who were willing to risk their lives in the line of duty stopped it.Hunter and Bainbridge are the first to report on the inner workings of this conspiracy; they examine the forces that led the perpetrators to conceive the plot. The authors also tel... The Washington Post - Ted Widmer The definitive history of this attempted murder has now been written by Stephen Hunter and John Bainbridge Jr. True to their topic, theirs is an unlikely conspiracy: Hunter is a Pulitzer Prize-winning film critic for this newspaper and Bainbridge a journalist and former legal writer in Baltimore. It's a bit unclear what drew them to each other or to this topic, but they attack it with verve.
Authors' Note 1Introduction 3A Drive Around Washington 5Griselio Agonistes 12Revolution 18The Odd Couple 36Mr. Gonzales and Mr. De Silva Go to Washington 40Early Morning 50Baby Starches the Shirts 54Toad 62The New Guy 74The Buick Guy 83The Guns 86The Ceremony 100Indian Summer 104The Big Walk 109Oscar 113"It Did Not Go Off" 128Pappy 133The Next Ten Seconds 138Resurrection Man 141So Loud, So Fast 152Upstairs at Blair 156Downstairs at Blair 161Borinquen 167Oscar Alone 181The End's Run 184Good Hands 186The Colossus Rhoads 194Oscar Goes Down 200The Second Assault 203Pimienta 206Point-Blank 223The Man Who Loved Guns 228The Dark Visitors 236Mortal Danger 240The Neighbor 243American Gunfight 244The Good Samaritan 252The Policemen's Wives 258The Scene 260Inside the Soccer Shoe 267Who Shot Oscar? 273The Roundup 278Taps 286Oscar on Trial 289Deep Conspiracy 298Cressie Does Her Duty 308Oscar Speaks 310- R - I - 317Epilogue: Destinies 323Source Notes 327Bibliography 339Acknowledgments 349Index 355
