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Reading Julia Keller

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Tonight, Tribune cultural critic and Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Keller reads selections from her debut book, Mr. Gatling's Terrible Marvel: The Gun That Changed Everything & the Misunderstood Genius Who Invented It. The title is a mouthful, but Keller's fluid prose and painstaking research offer a crystalline look at one of the men who, for better and worse, helped lay the foundation for the US' post-Civil War dominance. Creator of the first successful machine gun, Dr. Richard J. Gatling embodied that uniquely American strand of single-minded industriousness; he also provided a handy metaphor for the nation's oft-bloodstained ascent during the 19th century.

– Stephen Gossett

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