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The Book That Corrects What We Think We Know
Almost everything the public believed about Columbine in the years after 1999 was wrong. Dave Cullen spent ten years reporting, reviewing documents, and interviewing survivors and investigators to write a book that dismantles the myths systematically and replaces them with something harder and more accurate. The killers were not loners. They were not bullied. They were not targeting any specific social group. The book does not offer the simple story. It offers the true one.


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449 Pages
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10 Years of Research

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The killers were not who the media said they were. The truth was more unsettling.


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Reading Columbine
4 Unsensationalized
5 Most important
5 Each correction lands
5 Most moving

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This book should be read by anyone who thinks they know what happened at Columbine. The myths are so embedded in the story that even people who followed it closely hold them.


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Did Columbine change how you think about media coverage of mass shootings?
Yes profoundly, I now read all coverage with much more skepticism
Somewhat, I was already skeptical but this gave me specific examples
Not much, I think coverage has improved since 1999
I have not read it yet