About this title: Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, "Columbine" is an award-winning journalist's definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history.
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Twelve
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780446546935ISBN:0446546933
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Edition: First
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Twelve, New York
Date Published: 2009
Description: Octavo; vg+/vg; dj, gray spine with white text; HB, gray spine with black text; quarter-bound w/white boards; minor shelf wear and bumping; text block, clean; 415 pp.; else very good; ---REVIEW COPY. Psychology. 7-31-1149247. read more
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Edition: Sixth Impression
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Twelve, New York
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780446546935ISBN:0446546933
Description: Very Good/Very Good. 8vo 9780446546935 pp. x [2] 417. 'The result is an astonishing account of two good students with lots of friends, who came to stockpile a basement cache of weapons, to record their raging hatred, and to manipulate every adult who got in their way. They left signs everywhere, described by Cullen with a keen investigative eye and psychological acumen. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, thousands of pages of police files, FBI psychologists, and the boy's tapes and diaries, he ... read more
Binding: Hardback
Publisher: Grand Central Pub
Date Published: 2009
ISBN-13:9780446546935ISBN:0446546933
Description: New. Ten years in the making and a masterpiece of reportage, "Columbine" is an award-winning journalist's definitive account of one of the most shocking massacres in American history. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Twelve
Date Published: 2009-03-18
ISBN-13:9780446546935ISBN:0446546933
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"I felt as though I were someone who was watching the aftermath of a car accident while driving by as I read this book. Dave Cullen, who happens to be a journalist, examines the lives of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris and tries to present what truly happened at Columine High School when the two went on their school shooting spree.
I wanted to read this book because the shootings at Columbine High School happened during my first year of teaching, changing the way I perceived safety in a classroom. Cullen presents very interesting information in the book - including a potential police cover up, the possibility that Harris was a true psychopath, and details that shatter myths about one student dying as a martyr. He also discounts the notion that bullying at the school was one of the reasons that Harris and Klebold decided to take action in the way that they did and the information that he shares is interesting enough to make me want to read the extended coverage from several Denver newspapers."
"Because I didn't have cable back in 1999, I did not get sucked into the tragic morass that was the Columbine shootings. I didn't want to know the details, because I didn't want to give the killers the recognition they were determined to achieve. But when reading Wally Lamb's The Hour I First Believed, I found myself curious and began doing some research into the horrifying event. Now, Dave Cullen has brought all the elements of the tragedy together in one accessible, cohesive, gripping, and heartbreaking volume.
While the broad strokes of the story have been reported before, Cullen offers a complete (to this date) history of the event and its aftermath that is sad, terrifying, and infuriating. it is also deeply reflective of this age of incompetence and denial-from the lack of organization within the school itself-no one had the codes to turn off the fire alarms for hours, teachers and students paralyzed by fear-to the uncoordinated response by police; the easy access to firearms to the willingness of authorities and adults to overlook signs. And there is the media, unwitting co-conspirators thanks to the drive for ratings, the need to fill air space, lack of thoughtful analysis, moronic superficiality, and an unbridled rush to judgment.
Cullen offers rounded portraits of the killers, their classmates, and the adults-the principal, the cops, the FBI expert-involved and shows how the tragedy might have been averted. He takes us step by step through the events leading up to the shootings and provides solid reasoning into the whys, backed by evidence the killers left behind, investigative findings, and the insights of law enforcement and other experts. And there are the parents, the targets a nation latched onto in a desperate need to blame. While they have been mostly reticent, I cannot begin to image the pain these two families endured knowing that not only were their sons dead, but that they brought unbearable suffering to others. There are many who have no sympathy for them, but as anyone who has a teenager, works with teenagers, or is just familiar with teens knows, even the best parents can have a terrible child, and even the worst parents can have an angel. There was also the parent who did see, the mother of a former friend of the killers, whose warnings went unheeded. The result is a gripping, three-dimensional look at this home-grown terror event that still resonates in our national psyche. For anyone who wants to begin to understand, Cullen's book is an informed and informative resource."
"Columbine is one of the most fascinating books I've ever read. Forget everything you thought you knew about the killers, their motives, the high school and role of the media in reporting an unfolding event. The real story is not what you saw on TV that terrible April day or the weeks and months that followed. Dave Cullen goes behind the headlines and brings us the facts about one the darkest days in modern American history. He brilliantly cuts through the hysteria to show us the truth about Dylan and Eric, their families, Columbine High School and the town of Littleton, Colorado. To me, one of the most haunting aspects of this story is how typical all of these suburban families are. I see both the killers and their victims in the faces of my neighbor's children, the teenagers at the ballgame on Friday night and kids on playground down the street. It's easy now to talk about who should have known about the diabolical plans of Dylan Klebold and Eric Harris but Cullen shows us that it's not so simple to see into the mind of a troubled teenager. Adding to the tragedy is the way the media handled the story, compounding grief and fear with rumors and falsehoods and manipulating the raw emotions of a shocked nation.
I could not put this book down until I finished. A must read for anyone interested in the role of the media in American society."
"Finally. I am done reading Columbine. Wow! What a book. It took me so much longer to read this book then any other book, because I would only read small sections of it at a time so that I could slowly digest what I was reading. It was a bit weird for me to read it so slowly, because I usually just dive right in and finish books rather quickly, but this time was different. I don't know why it was so different, maybe because this is a true story and maybe because I could only take so much ugliness at a time. Either way, I did it, and I'm done. And as a result I was reminded of when I was in college and I read Philip Gourevitch's book, We Wish To Inform You That Tomorrow We Will Be Killed With Our Families , and how I couldn't stop imagining what I was reading and I couldn't grasp how as a nation we were well aware of this impending situation and yet we did not intervene prior, during, and/or after, and it just made me sick to my stomach and well it really opened my eyes to the ugliness in the world and not just in my backyard. Not to say that I was naive and unaware of the atrocities being committed on a daily basis overseas, but I just wasn't as aware of our role in these atrocities - so I suppose I was a bit naive with regards to politics (which was how I came to take a Political Anthropology course - I wanted to know what was going on in the world, not just in the US). But I digress, my point is that Dave Cullen's book, Columbine, brought me back to a reality that I had forgotten about - a reality that lurks in our schools and our towns and mortifies us when we are confronted with it. A reality that shakes us as a nation and screams at us to wake up! Cullen has produced a well written and gripping book that details the events leading up to April 20th, 1999 and the aftermath that followed. I remember watching the news that day and wondering to myself what would make these kids do such a horrible thing to their peers and themselves. I remember the pictures splashed all over the papers and news - kids running out of buildings, someone falling out of a window, people clutching each other and crying; I just couldn't believe my eyes. And then the facts came together and you find out that two boys were responsible for drastically ending/challenging/changing lives and a whole community - and you think to yourself, what the frack happened to these kids that they would even consider, let alone actually shoot up their school and then kill themselves. What the frack was going on in Columbine? The answer to that question is simple - read Columbine by Dave Cullen to find out. Okay, so the book doesn't totally answer all of your questions, but it nearly does, which is as close as we are ever going to get to understanding what happened that day. The research, interviews, and planning of this book must have been exhaustive to say the least, but in the end, Cullen has created a meticulous piece of writing that helps provide a clear understanding of how one day can completely shatter so many lives in so many different ways. The misinformation that we were fed by the media is cleared up within this book. We learn about Eric and Dylan (the two murderers), the people that survived and the ones who didn't, the community and how it was affected by such a tragedy and the police investigation into April 20th, 1999. Cullen includes excerpts from Eric and Dylan's diaries and websites and he discusses the Basement Tapes that both boys created as an explanation as to what they were planning and what they envisioned as a result. Cullen also included biographical information about the people involved in the investigation, along with detailing how evidence was bungled, information withheld and how on April 20th, 1999 the police could have responded differently to the chaos. There were so many surprising facts revealed in this book that you are left with the realization of how much information was fabricated by the media and how little truth was actually reported. This has to be one of the most eye opening books I have read in quite some time - it definitely left an impression on me. I would most definitely recommend this book to everyone, because even though it is disturbing to read, it is an important book that needs to be read."
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