{"product_id":"9780143115649","title":"Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything and the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA provocative look at the life and times of the man who created the original weapon of mass destruction\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawing on her investigative and literary talents, Julia Keller offers a riveting account of the invention of the world's first working machine gun. Through her portrait of its misunderstood creator, Richard Jordan Gatling-who naively hoped that the overwhelming effectiveness of a multiple-firing weapon would save lives by decreasing the size of armies and reducing the number of soldiers needed to fight-Keller draws profound parallels to the scientists who would unleash America's atomic arsenal half a century later. The Gatling gun, in its combination of ingenuity, idealism, and destructive power, perfectly exemplifies the paradox of America's rise in the nineteenth century to a world superpower.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47016266629360,"sku":"9780143115649","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780143115649_p0.jpg?v=1763656966","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780143115649","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}