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SUMMARY:Book Review: A Gardin Wedding: A Gardins of Edin Novel 05/06
	/2025
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ORGANIZER;CN="richardmurray":troy@aalbc.com
DESCRIPTION:\n	\n\n\n\n	Book Review: A Gardin Wedding: A Gardins of Edin
	 Novel\n\n	by Rosey Lee\n\n	List Price: $17.00\n\n	WaterBrook Press (May 1
	3\, 2025)\n\n	Fiction\, Paperback\, 272 pages\n\n	ISBN: 9780593445518\n\n	
	Imprint: WaterBrook Press\n\n	Publisher: Penguin Random House\n\n	Parent C
	ompany: Bertelsmann\n\n	Book Reviewed by Richard Murray \n\n	Book Review 
	Text Edited by Microsoft Copilot\n\n	Review URL  [ https://aalbc.com/book
	_review/9780593445518 ]\n\n	Buy from AALBC [ https://store.aalbc.com/cart.
	php?action=buy&amp\;sku=9780593445518&amp\;source=buy_button ]\n\n	Buy the
	 Audiobook [ https://libro.fm/audiobooks/9780593791820?bookstore=aalbc ] 
	\n\n	Borrow from Library  [https://search.worldcat.org/title/1452959967?o
	clcNum=1452959967]\n\n	Rosey Lee Author Page [ https://aalbc.com/authors/R
	osey+Lee ]\n\n	Richard Murray Book Review Page [ https://aalbc.com/authors
	/Richard+Murray ]\n\n\n\n	 \n\n\n\n	IN AMENDMENT\n\n\n\n	burkins machine 
	gun\n\n	https://theblackhistorychannel.com/2013/eugene-burkins-inventor-wi
	th-a-vision/\n\n\n\n	Webpage article transcript\n\n\n\n	Eugene Burkins\, I
	nventor With a Vision\nBy RitaLorraine -July 5\, 2013\nInvention: Automati
	c Machine Gun\nPATENT #649\,433\, May 15\, 1900\n\nMeet Eugene Burkins\, i
	nventor of the “Burkins Automatic Machine-Gun.”\nOther than learning t
	o read and write\, Eugene never had much education and once worked as a 
	“bootblack\,” cleaning and polishing shoes for a living. He had never 
	been a soldier\, or even had any experience with guns of any type or descr
	iption\, and it is these facts that make his invention all the more brilli
	ant in nature.\n\nAfter seeing a picture of the guns on the Battleship Mai
	ne in the local newspaper\, hestudied the pictures and imagined ways in wh
	ich he could improve the machine gun and increase its firing capacity.\n\n
	Eugene made his first working model with a pocket knife. However\, word so
	on spread about his brilliant endeavor and some of the leading African Ame
	ricans of that period helped him secure his patent.\nA Mr. Madden\, a weal
	thy Black businessman in Chicago\, invested over $3\,000 (equivalent to ov
	er $62\,000 by today’s standards) to make a perfect model of the inventi
	on.\n\nThe result was a machine gun that fired seven times more bullets a 
	minute than the Gatling gun from the Battleship Maine.\n\nSeveral foreign 
	countries quickly offered large sums of money for the rights to manufactur
	e Mr. Burkins’ gun for their own naval departments\, but Eugene and his 
	partner\, Mr. Madden\, decided to try to control the manufacturing interes
	t in the United States.\n\nAdmiral George Dewey\, a famous Naval military 
	figure in American history\, was quoted as saying: “Burkins’ Machine G
	un was by far the best machine-gun ever made.”\n\nBest wishes and happy 
	inventing\,\nRita Lorraine\n\n\n\n\n	\n\n\n\n	\n\n\n\n	 \n\n
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