# Elizabeth Gonzalez James and Alexander Sammartino: Fathers, Sons and Guns

How do novelists interpret America’s history with guns? In “The Bullet Swallower” by Elizabeth Gonzalez James, the legacy of two brothers and their botched bank robbery spans two centuries. Alexander Sammartino’s “Last Acts” tells the story of a father and son and their Phoenix gun store. The authors discussed their work with John Williams at the 2024 Library of Congress National Book Festival in Washington, D.C.

- Kind: Talk
- Year: 2024
- Runtime: 59 min
- By: Sammartino, Alexander
- Archive: [Library of Congress](https://www.loc.gov/item/video-10226/)
- Licence or status: Rights statement at the Library of Congress (as the archive states it)
- Credit: Library of Congress
- Who can watch: Tweens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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