A trio of American manufacturers had emerged whose products were now world famous -- Colt, Winchester, and Remington. As early as 1851, at the London World’s Fair, American rifles were a sensation, and they received medals.
H.C. Engelbrecht
H.C. Engelbrecht (1895–1939) received his PhD at Columbia University, with a dissertation on Johann Gottlieb Fichte. While teaching at the University of Chicago, he wrote the bestseller Merchants of Death (1934) with F.C. Hanighen.
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Here is the archetype of all post–World War I revisionism of a particular variety: the hunt for the people who made the big bucks off the killing machine. The Merchants of Death was, in many ways, the manifesto of a generation of people who swore
