When I read it a couple of years ago, I enjoyed Garry Wills' "To Keep And Bear Arms" (NYRB). A short preview of the article/review can be found at http://www.nybooks.com/articles/1805 ...but there are also (probably not really legal) copies of the whole piece: http://www.potowmack.org/garwills.html (8850 words) Best regards Franz Fuchs ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html