Christopher Strain is Associate Professor of History and American Studies at Florida Atlantic University, and is author of Pure Fire: Self-Defense as Activism in the Civil Rights Era and Burning Faith: Church Arson in the American South.
"Reload is a literate guide through the American cultural landscape. Strain offers bold suggestions for reducing lethal violence in America."
—Jeffrey Goldstein, author of Why We Watch: The Attractions of Violent Entertainment
"Indispensable for any criminal justice collection. Essential."
—Choice
"One of the most valuable pieces of scholarship on the subject of violence and American culture that I have read."
—David Griffith, author of A Good War Is Hard to Find
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