Episode 20: Dirty Harry with Dr. Drew McKevitt

This week Drew McKevitt and I talk about Clint Eastwood's vigilante cop, Dirty Harry Callahan. We get into the rise of gun culture in the United States, Dirty Harry as a response to the counter culture revolution of the 1960s, and ultimately recast Dirty Harry for our current age. I haven't laughed this hard in a long time.

Dr. Drew McKevitt is the John D. Winters Endowed Professor of History at Louisiana Tech University.

His new book is Gun Country: Gun Capitalism, Culture, and Control in Cold War America.

His first book was Consuming Japan: Popular Culture and the Globalizing of 1980s America.

For more details on my research and writing, please see my publications.

He teaches undergraduate and graduate classes at Louisiana Tech on many subjects. He works with graduate students on graduate theses and comprehensive exams in the field of U.S. foreign relations history.