Paul Barrett’s Glock: The Rise of America’s Gun (2012) is an eminently readable history of the lightweight Austrian pistol.
Somehow, the gun that’s “uglier than a sack full of assholes” has become the “Google of modern civilian handguns: the pioneer brand that defines its product category.”
It’s an interesting story, and a well told one. Gun control advocates might also get a lesson out of this work, as it seems that they often end up being the best salesmen for firearms.
Read reviews in the New York Times and the Washington Post.