American journalist and author, former deputy editor at Bloomberg Businessweek, known for narrative business journalism including his biography of Glock.
Barrett's contribution is in the genre of serious narrative business journalism: using the Glock story to examine American gun culture, defense contracting, and entrepreneurship. Represents the business biography tradition that uses a product's history to illuminate larger cultural forces.
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