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Day of reckoning : Columbine and the search for America's soul / Wendy Murray Zoba.
Van Pelt Library LB3013.3 .Z63 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Murray, Wendy, 1956-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- School shootings--Colorado--Littleton.
- School shootings.
- Christian life--Colorado--Littleton.
- Christian life.
- Columbine High School (Littleton, Colo.).
- Colorado--Littleton.
- Physical Description:
- 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Grand Rapids, MI : Brazos Press, [2000]
- Summary:
- In Day of Reckoning, Wendy Murray Zoba vividly recounts the horrible events of April 20, 1999, and powerfully dissects controversies that still swirl in the aftermath of the Columbine High School shootings. Based on on-site visits and scores of interviews with survivors, parents, and friends of victims, her book gives unforgettable voice to the persons whose lives were most directly affected by the Columbine massacre.
- But Zoba's book cuts deepest because she does not separate journalistic professionalism from her own identity as the mother of teenagers, and so her ability to empathize with Colorado parents who one spring morning sent their kids off to school -- not realizing they would never see them alive again.
- Day of Reckoning, then, is both a careful accounting of confusing, controversial events, and a deeply moving human document. It will touch readers struggling to understand what happened at Columbine and serve as an important resource in the ongoing historical interpretation of a darkly key event in the last years of the twentieth century.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Double Coupon Days: Evil Descends upon the Heartland 11
- Chapter 2 One More Bus: The Day Their Children Didn't Come Home 21
- Chapter 3 Scandal of the Crosses: "The Cross Is a Dangerous Symbol for Vicious Murderers" 42
- Chapter 4 "Men Without Chests": The Rise of the Gun-toting Antihero 56
- Chapter 5 Cassie's Yes: Her Final Moments: Martyrdom or Myth? 78
- Chapter 6 Tactical Choices: Police Faced "Unbelievable Craziness" 105
- Chapter 7 We Are Columbine: The Question the Killers Foisted upon Us 137
- Chapter 8 Deliver Us from Evil: Whose Kingdom Is This? 158
- Chapter 9 Rachel's Vision: The Promise to See God 176
- Chapter 10 God in the Storm: Coming to Terms with Fifteen Losses 195.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 216-228).
- ISBN:
- 1587430010
- OCLC:
- 45195732
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