Columbine 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition by Dave Cullen Paperback Book

Description: Columbine 25th Anniversary Memorial Edition by Dave Cullen What really happened on April 20, 1999? The horror of the Columbine school shooting left an indelible stamp on the American psyche. In remembrance of the 25th anniversary comes a new edition of this journalistic masterpiece: the definitive account of the Columbine massacre, its aftermath, and its significance, from the acclaimed journalist who followed the story from the outset. Columbine has become the template for nearly two decades of "spectacle murders." But it is a false script, seized upon by a generation of new killers. In the wake of New- town, Parkland, and Pulse, the imperative to understand the crime that sparked this plague grows more urgent every year. Dave Cullen was one of the first reporters on the scene, and he spent ten years on this book. 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 of which are reproduced in the appendix. Cullen paints raw portraits of two polar-opposite killers, which contrast starkly with the flashes of resilience and redemption among the survivors. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Author Biography Dave Cullen has been an authority on mass murders for 25 years, writing for New York Times, London Times, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, Politico, Guardian, and Washington Post. He wrote Parkland and a Vanity Fair profile of Gabby Giffords, and covered LGBT troops extensively. Columbine has been translated into nine languages, made over a dozen All-Time Best True Crime lists, won the Edgar and Goodreads Choice Awards, and named one of the Top 10 Education books of the Decade. Review "A chilling page-turner, a striking accomplishment given that Cullens likely readers almost certainly know how the tragic story ends...I knew Cullen was a dogged reporter and a terrific writer, but even I was blown away by the pacing and story-telling he mastered in Columbine, a disturbing, inspiring work of art."--Salon"A gripping study . . . To his credit, Mr. Cullen does not simply tear down Columbines legends. He also convincingly explains what really sparked the murderous rage . . . disquieting . . . beautifully written."--The New York Observer"A remarkable book. It is painstakingly reported, well-organized and compellingly written . . . For any reader who wants to understand the complicated nature of evil, this book is a masterpiece."--The Seattle Times"A staggering achievement, ...Rather than burden the deftly written prose with excessive footnotes, Cullen wisely includes a detailed timeline, bibliography and lengthy notes in the back of the book. The 417-page COLUMBINE tears open old wounds but does so with an aching, unflinching clarity thats only possible with hindsight . . . admirable, harrowing work . . . one of the finer nonfiction efforts thus far in 2009."--Fort Worth Star-Telegram"Comprehensive...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 Times"Comprehensively nightmarish . . . Cullens task is difficult not only because the events in question are almost literally unspeakable but also because even as he tells the story of a massacre that took the lives of 15 people, including the killers, he has to untell the stories that have already been told . . . Should this story be told at all? Theres an element of sick, voyeuristic fascination to it--we dont need an exercise in disaster porn. But Columbine is a necessary book. . . . The actual events of April 20, 1999, are exactly as appalling as youd expect, and Cullen doesnt spare us a second of them."--Time"Comprehensively reported . . . Cullen scrupulously interpolates the interrupted lives of students, teachers, and lawmen."--Seattle Weekly"Cullens book is a nerve-wracking, methodical and panoramic account...COLUMBINE has its terrifying sections, particularly during Cullens minute-by-minute rendering of the chaotic 49-minute assault. He puts us inside and outside the building, and he captures the disbelief viewers experienced in almost witnessing mass murder live on television."--Cleveland Plain Dealer"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, foreshadowing many of the reactions to Sept. 11 (lawsuits, arguments about the memorial, voyeuristic bus tours); and, at the end of the day, a fine example of old fashioned journalism . . . moving things along with agility and grace."--Jennifer Senior, The New York Times Review of Books"Dave 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 Wars"Exhaustive and supremely level-headed . . . The ways in which the Columbine story became distorted in the retelling make for one of the most fascinating aspects of Cullens book . . . Hopping back and forth in time, Cullen manages to tell this complicated story with remarkable clarity and coherence. As one of the first reporters on the scene in 1999, he has been studying this event firsthand for a decade, and his book exudes a sense of authority missing from much of the original media coverage. ...Cullen strikes just the right tone of tough-minded compassion, for the most part steering clear of melodrama, sermonizing and easy answers."--Gary Krist, Washington Post"Half 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 Takes"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? 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 Reivew"Leveraged for political ends by Michael Moore on film and adopted for convenience by the news media as shorthand for teenage violence, Columbine has begun to feel as impenetrable and allegorical as Greek myth. So the intensive reporting of Denver-based journalist Dave Cullen is welcome. . . Cullen creates more than a nuanced portrait of school shooters as young men. He writes a human story - a compassionate narrative of teenagers with guns (and bombs, too), and the havoc they wreak on a school, a community, and America.--Esquire"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 Times"The definitive account, [of the tragedy] will likely be Dave Cullens COLUMBINE, a nonfiction book that has the pacing of an action movie and the complexity of a Shakespearean drama . . . Cullen has a gift, if thats the right word, for excruciating detail. At times the language is so vivid you can almost smell the gunpowder and the fear."--Newsweek"What [Columbine] captures better than any other reporting is the confusion and fear that come from an inability to make sense of something that has no reason, no cause, no source-confusion and fear that can lead to damaging misinformation and lasting fictions."--New York Magazine"While tackling popular misconceptions, Cullen gives a riveting account of what happened that day and how the survivors view the event that marked their lives forever."--CNNCOLUMBINE is a remarkable achievement. Cullen has brought illumination to a dark and difficult topic, and the result is an example of literary nonfiction at its finest: masterful, clear-eyed, bold - and unforgettable."--Charlotte ObserverFrom the very first page, I could not put COLUMBINE Dave Cullens searing narrative, down. Dylan ... How the killings unfolded, and why, reads like the grisliest of fiction. Would that it were not true. Grade: A"--Entertainment WeeklyWhile the details of the day are indeed gruesome, Cullen neither embellishes nor sensationalizes. His unadorned prose and staccato sections offer welcome relief from the grisly minutiae... Cullens honor and reporting skills propel this book beyond tabloid and into true literature."--Newsday Details ISBN1538766841 Author Dave Cullen Publisher Twelve ISBN-13 9781538766842 Format Paperback Imprint Twelve Country of Publication United States AU Release Date 2023-12-26 NZ Release Date 2023-12-26 UK Release Date 2023-12-26 Edition Description Revised ed. Audience General Year 2024 Publication Date 2024-03-26 US Release Date 2024-03-26 Pages 496 We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:159101379;

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