"An exceptional biography of an archetypal 19th-century American inventor and businessman, written with a journalist’s sense of color and a historian’s eye for the revealing detail."

 –Alexander Rose, WALL STREET JOURNAL

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"[Colt's] missteps are as fascinating as his accomplishments, as described in Revolver: Sam Colt and the Six-Shooter That Changed America. Cleareyed and honest, Rasenberger portrays a complicated figure who combined real mechanical insight with a talent for hucksterism... Revolver is rewarding biography, highlighting Colt’s place in the history of industrialization."  

—T.J. Stiles, NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

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 "The story of how Colt raised himself from frontier huckster to great American industrialist is the subject of Jim Rasenberger’s lively and balanced new book....Rasenberger’s narrative is, to a surprising degree, the story of America in the first half of the 19th century. It overflows with relentless ambition, energy, entrepreneurship, ingenuity and wealth, and with deceit, fraud, jingoism and murder.” 

—Matthew C. Simpson, WASHINGTON POST

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"Rollicking and informative ... sketched

with wit and precision" 

—PUBLISHERS WEEKLY

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