Description - Columbine by Dave Cullen
On April 20, 1999, two boys left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. Their goal was simple: to blow up their school, Oklahoma-City style, and to leave "a lasting impression on the world." Their bombs failed, but the ensuing massacre defined a new era of school violenceirrevocably branding every subsequent shooting "another Columbine." Now, in a riveting piece of journalism nearly ten years in the making, comes the story none of us knew. In this revelatory book, Dave Cullen has delivered a profile of teenage killers that goes to the heart of psychopathology. He lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the quavering, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who went to the prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal. In the tradition of Capote's In Cold Blood, Columbine is destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of violence, grief, and a blundering, dishonest police force, it is above all a compelling and utterly human portrait of two young killersan unforgettable cautionary tale for our times. REVIEWS "A staggering feat of reporting GQ Magazine "In this remarkable account of the April 20, 1999, Columbine High School shooting, journalist Cullen not only dispels several of the prevailing myths about the event but tackles the hardest question of all: why did it happen?... Readers will come away from Cullen's unflinching account with a deeper understanding of what drove these boys to kill, even if the answers aren't easy to stomach." Publishers Weekly STARRED REVIEW Graphic and emotionally vivid; spectacularly researched and analysed BOOKLIST AUTHOR: Dave Cullen is a journalist and author who has contributed to Slate, Salon, and the New York Times and is considered the nation's foremost authority on the Columbine killers.
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