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100 1  Hunter, Stephen,|d1946- 
245 10 American gunfight :|bthe plot to kill Harry Truman-and the
       shoot-out that stopped it /|cStephen Hunter and John 
       Bainbridge, Jr. 
264  1 New York :|bSimon & Schuster,|c[2005] 
264  4 |c©2005 
300    ix, 368 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates :
       |billustrations ;|c25 cm 
336    text|btxt|2rdacontent 
337    unmediated|bn|2rdamedia 
338    volume|bnc|2rdacarrier 
504    Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-348) and 
       index. 
520    This is a groundbreaking work of meticulous historical 
       research and the dramatic story of an act of terrorism 
       that almost succeeded. Journalists Hunter and Bainbridge 
       have pieced together the story of the 1950 conspiracy to 
       assassinate President Harry Truman, and of how a few good 
       men--ordinary guys willing to risk their lives in the line
       of duty--stopped it in a bloody shoot-out in the streets 
       of Washington. The authors examine the forces that led the
       Puerto Rican nationalist perpetrators to conceive the 
       plot. They tell the story of the men themselves, from 
       their youth and the world in which they grew up, to the 
       moment the gunfire erupted. This book is about courage--on
       both sides, about what politics and devotion to a cause 
       can lead men to do, and about what actually happens, 
       second by second, when a gunfight explodes.--From 
       publisher description. 
600 10 Truman, Harry S.,|d1884-1972|xAssassination attempt, 1950.
600 10 Collazo, Oscar,|d1914-1994. 
600 10 Torresola, Griselio. 
610 10 United States.|bSecret Service|xOfficials and employees
       |vBiography. 
610 20 Blair House (Washington, D.C.) 
650  0 Nationalists|zPuerto Rico|vBiography. 
650  0 Assassins|vBiography. 
700 1  Bainbridge, John,|d1946- 
994    02|bGPI