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A Safeway in Arizona, what the Gabrielle Giffords shooting tells us about the Grand Canyon State and life in America, Tom Zoellner

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A Safeway in Arizona, what the Gabrielle Giffords shooting tells us about the Grand Canyon State and life in America, Tom Zoellner

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references

resource.biographical

individual biography

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

A Safeway in Arizona

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

733230551

Responsibility statement

Tom Zoellner

Sub title

what the Gabrielle Giffords shooting tells us about the Grand Canyon State and life in America

Summary

This book is an account of the state of Arizona, seen through the lens of the Tucson shootings. On January 8, 2011, twenty-two-year-old Jared Lee Loughner opened fire at a Tucson meet-and-greet held by U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords. The incident left six people dead and eighteen injured, including Giffords, whom he shot in the head. The auhtor, a fifth generation Arizonan and longtime friend of Giffords's and a field organizer on her Congressional campaign, uses the tragedy as a jumping-off point to expose the fault lines in Arizona's political and socioeconomic landscape that allowed this to happen. He discusses the harmful political rhetoric, the inept state government, the lingering effects of the housing market's boom and bust, the proliferation and accessibility of guns, the lack of established communities, and the hysteria surrounding issues of race and immigration. He offers a revealing portrait of the Southwestern state at a critical moment in history, and as a symbol of the nation's discontents and uncertainties. Ultimately, it is his rallying cry for a saner, more civil way of life

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