Book : Columbine - Cullen, Dave

-Titulo Original : Columbine

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Twelve

-Descripcion Original:

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 wasnt 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 worlds 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 Review Salon magazines Dave Cullen has been on top of the Columbine story from the start... We dont like our evil to be banal. Ten years after Columbine, it only now may be sinking in that the psychopathic killers were not jock-hating dorks from a Trench Coat Mafia, or, as ABC News maintained at the time, part of a dark, underground national phenomenon known as the Gothic movement. In the new bestseller COLUMBINE, the journalist Dave Cullen reaffirms that Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris were instead ordinary American teenagers who worked at the local pizza joint, loved their parents and were popular among their classmates. Frank Rich, The New York TimesDave Cullen is the Dante of this high school hell. I came away from it thinking of Jack Nicholson hollering You want the truth? You cant handle the truth! Read this quietly powerful account of Columbine and find out if you can. Ron Rosenbaum, author of Explaining Hitler and The Shakespeare WarsHalf the anguish of Columbine is our mystification. How did those boys get so twisted, so murderous? Now, after nine years of great reporting, Dave Cullen has done the impossible: you will know these killers -- and it will shake you up. This is a big-time work that will endure. Richard Ben Cramer, author of Joe DiMaggio and What It TakesIn 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? Drawing on extensive interviews, police reports and his own reporting, Cullen meticulously pieces together what happened when 18-year-old Eric Harris and 17-year-old Dylan Klebold killed 13 people before turning their guns on themselves.... Cullen expertly balances the psychological analysis-enhanced by several of the nations leading experts on psychopathology-with an examination of the shootings effects on survivors, victims families and the Columbine community. Readers will come away from Cullens unflinching account with a deeper understanding of what drove these boys to kill, even if the answers arent easy to stomach. Publishers Weekly, Starred ReivewComprehensive...Its a book that hits you like a crime scene photo, a reminder of what journalism at its best is all about. Cullen knows his material from the inside; he covered Columbine, for Salon and Slate primarily, beginning around noon on the day of the attack. But if this gives him a certain purchase on the story, his perspective is what resonates. LA TimesCullens book is a nerve-wracking, methodical and p