Columbine Columbine

Columbine

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Publisher Description

Ten years in the works, a masterpiece of reportage, this is the definitive account of the Columbine massacre, its aftermath, and its significance, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the story from the outset.
"The tragedies keep coming. As we reel from the latest horror . . ."

So begins a new epilogue, illustrating how Columbine became the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." It is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of Newtown, Aurora, and Virginia Tech, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year.

What really happened April 20, 1999? The horror left an indelible stamp on the American psyche, but most of what we "know" is wrong. It wasn't about jocks, Goths, or the Trench Coat Mafia. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on scene, and spent ten years on this book-widely recognized as the definitive account. With a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen, he draws on mountains of evidence, insight from the world's leading forensic psychologists, and the killers' own words and drawings-several reproduced in a new appendix. Cullen paints raw portraits of two polar opposite killers. They contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors.

Expanded with a New Epilogue

GENRE
Biographies & Memoirs
RELEASED
2009
April 6
LANGUAGE
EN
English
LENGTH
464
Pages
PUBLISHER
Grand Central Publishing
SELLER
Hachette Digital, Inc.
SIZE
11
MB

Customer Reviews

LeighF ,

Captivating

Growing up in Littleton, Colorado, I felt like I had a good grasp of the events that took place during and after the shootings. This book opened my eyes.

In the ten years since the shootings, the dozens of parallel investigations, coverups and the families' recovery has become the real story.

Columbine presents a thoroughly researched, detailed account of the events in a captivating way, as well as a very detailed examination of how two boys from a suburban community could have gone virtually unnoticed while planning and executing such a horrible act.

A highly recommended read.

acertaingirl ,

WOW!

I am 3/4 of the way through this book and I just need to clear my head.

I remember the Columbine incident, but like everyone else not directly affected, it slipped out of my mind. I downloaded a sample of the book and after reading it, immediately bought it.

This book reads like a horror novel. The time it took to research it shows in the detailed descriptions of everything and everyone involved.

The definitive book on this tragedy. I will not forget Columbine again.

hello im clare ,

What?!

How can anyone actually like this book..? For someone who actually studied this, one could easily tell that most of these facts are WRONG. Not even gonna go into the creepy obsession he seemed to have with Eric...

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