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 shooting defined a new
era of school violence-irrevocably branding every subsequent
shooting "another Columbine."
When we think of Columbine, we think of the Trench Coat Mafia; we
think of Cassie Bernall, the girl we thought professed her faith
before she was shot; and we think of the boy pulling himself out of
a school window -- the whole world was watching him. 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
prom three days earlier and obsessed about love in his journal.
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 gives the first
complete account of the Columbine tragedy.
In the tradition of HELTER SKELTER and IN COLD BLOOD, COLUMBINE is
destined to be a classic. A close-up portrait of hatred, a
community rendered helpless, and the police blunders and cover-ups,
it is a compelling and utterly human portrait of two killers-an
unforgettable cautionary tale for our times.
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