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It has taken ten years for someone to summon the fortitude to investigate and reveal the full story behind the Columbine murders. Appropriately, that person is Dave Cullen, a Denver reporter who was among the first to arrive at the horrific scene on April 20, 1999, and then spent the next decade interviewing everyone he could find with a connection to the shootings, and poring over thousands of pages of police reports and FBI files. Cullen conclusively shows that the accepted image of Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold as disgruntled, unpopular outcasts with a grudge against a select few in their high school class is profoundly false. The truth is even more terrifying--the boys had planned to annihilate the entire school with a series of bombs. Hopefully, Cullen's exhaustive research, which included access to the disturbing content of the killers' personal journals, will bring some semblance of closure to the families of the victims, and add considerably to the insight and information needed to defend against a repetition of this tragedy.
| Size | | Length: | 417 pages | | Height: | 9.3 in | | Width: | 6.5 in | | Thickness: | 1.2 in | | Weight: | 23.2 oz |
Industry Reviews
"In this remarkable account of the...Columbine High School shooting,....Cullen expertly balances the psychological analysis...with an examination of the shooting's effects on survivors, victims' families and the Columbine community." (starred review)
(02/23/2009)
"One of the enduring ironies of the Columbine High School shootings is how, despite an avalanche of media coverage, much of what we thought we knew was so wrong....COLUMBINE scrapes away the urban legends and popular analysis, and shows the reader clearly what happened."
(03/29/2009)
"It's a book that hits you like a crime scene photo, a reminder of what journalism at its best is all about....[P]erhaps the most profound achievement of COLUMBINE [is] to evoke in us an unexpected empathy -- not for what the killers did but for who they were. Their lives, Cullen wants us to remember, are tragic also, and if we are ever to get at the heart of this story, we must make room for them in the calamity."
(04/05/2009)
"[In this] ambitious and ultimately compelling take on the tragedy,...[Cullen] breaks new ground..., dispels myths..., and makes us feel intensely for those who were killed and wounded."
(04/02/2009)
"COLUMBINE is an excellent work of media criticism, showing how legends become truths through continual citation; a sensitive guide to the patterns of public grief...; and...a fine example of old-fashioned journalism."
(04/19/2009)
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