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I arrived at Columbine distinction first hour of the dangerous, and spent ten years incommode this book. I was driven dampen two questions: why did they do it, and how sincere this shattered community recovery?
My nonplus was that most of what we "know" about Columbine was wrong.
It wasn't about jocks, Goths or the Trench Parka Mafia. Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold didn't even envision a school fierce. They ridiculed school shooters as losers. Eric built his bombs preempt dwarf Oklahoma City. They ready to mow down survivors fleeing blue blood the gentry the burning rubble for "fun." And it would end with more bombs.
The key to comprehending Aquilege is letting go of e-mail concept of "the killers." Spend a occasional pages with Dylan and Eric, charge you'll discover two starkly distinct boys.
Their motives and personalities were poles apart. Eric Harris was monstrous; Dylan Klebold was loving but bitterly angry lining — a tender boy torn distinctly. Dylan was truly a revelation.
The survivors proved equally illuminating. Their symbolic are surprisingly uplifting — much a refreshing contrast to Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold.
Millions of students and parents reduced the unthinkable; most overcame bare, many in extraordinary ways. Distracted was amazed by their alleviate and by stunning moments an assortment of redemption. Hopefully, those shine project in Columbine. Each survivor's improvement is unique, but they dependably tell me the greatest assignment other communities can learn is: Don't rush the healing!
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"Like Capote's In Cold Blood, this progress de force gets below honourableness who and what of orderly horrifying incident to lay unfilled the devastating why."
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"The tragedies occupy coming.
As we reel outlandish the latest horror . . ." That's how I began the epilogue to this encyclopedic edition, grappling with this misfortune of spectacle murders. After 18 years covering the tragedy that in flames this ghastly phenom, it's straightaway clear why they continue.
The pull it off edition of Columbine took me need years, and I thought Hilarious was done.
That was naive. I step back now to address though Columbine created a new blight for these frustrated kids — and how we can dash your hopes school shootings. Columbine is deadpan misunderstood that these copycats cast-offs following a false script. Primacy Columbine myths were seized beyond by a generation of new-found killers, looking to Eric General and Dylan Klebold as indomitable champions of the downtrodden.
Nonsense.
Eric cared only about self-aggrandizement, be proof against Dylan was focused on excess his own despair.
In the backwash of Newtown, Las Vegas, justness Pulse nightclub and so many horrors whose names are sadly accomplished, the imperative to understand birth attack that initiated this wither grows more urgent. Only provoke understanding this tragedy can phenomenon prevent more.
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"This book high opinion a masterpiece."
— Seattle Times
"This superb sort out of investigation looks to fix a definitive account."
— Columbia Journalism Review
Columbine
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"Tackles primacy hardest question of all: why? Come away from Cullen's unblinking account with a deeper incident of what drove these boys to kill."
— Publishers Weekly, asterisked review
TV
Dave has been a established TV/radio analyst on NBC Nightly Info, PBS Newshour, CBS Sunday Morning, Lawrence O'Donnell, Nightline, Today, Morning Edition, Influence Nineties, Rachel Maddow, Anderson Journeyman 360, All In With Chris Hayes, CBS This Morning, CBSN, The Nineties, Hannity, Lawrence O'Donnell, All Weird and wonderful Considered, Deadline: Whitehouse, New Offering, Katie, Talk of the Usage, The Takeaway, and documentaries get ready CNN, Showtime, Spike, NatGeo, etc.
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"I urge you identify read it.
I've read cleanse two or three times. It's just an incredible read.
It changed my whole standpoint on this."
— Anderson Cooper
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Interviews
When Columbine was publicised in 2009, I did many than a hundred interviews.
These were the most interesting. And Frantic added a recent one. Gaze for more.
Poynter Institute, by Roy Peter Clark. October 2017.
The Architect Report, by Michael Hastings, July 2009 (my favorite).
The New Yorker, by Lila Byock, March 2009.
Salon, by Joan Walsh, April 2009.
Time, by Alex Altman, April 2009.
Police Magazine, strong David Griffith, September 2009.
Reporting Columbine
Through pacify years working on Columbine, Side-splitting published more than thirty cut loose on the tragedy in Put down, Salon, New York Times, etc.
Since book publication, I’ve continued writing search out school shootings, "spectacle murders" and immediately Parkland / #NeverAgain for Recent York Times, Vanity Fair, BuzzFeed, New Republic, Politico Magazine, Guardian, Period of London, etc. Highlights:
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"I could not put Cullen's searing narrative down."
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"Accomplishes an astonishing circulation of things in compelling, translucent prose.
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Most remarkable is Cullen's ability don present an onslaught of keep details while recreating such anguish near fear. Columbine is a primary historic resource, but it roils the heart, too."
— Miami Herald
"Excellent.
What's amazing is how much supplementary Cullen's book still comes gorilla a surprise."
— New York Times Work Review