From a taller tower : the rise of the American mass shooter

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Label

From a taller tower : the rise of the American mass shooter

Title remainder

the rise of the American mass shooter

Statement of responsibility

Seamus McGraw

Creator

• McGraw, Seamus

Author

• McGraw, Seamus

Subject

• Massacres
• Massacres -- United States
• Mass shootings
• School shootings -- United States
• United States
• School shootings
• Mass shootings -- United States

Language

eng

Summary

"This book is a deep dive into mass shootings--events in which one or more gunmen shoot more than four people--which have become increasingly common, particularly in America, over the last six decades. The book opens on a personal note, describing an event in which the author failed to protect an innocent man from violence, which he likens to our national inability to act and protect each other from these atrocities. From there, he goes back to August 1, 1966, when Charles Whitman murdered more than a dozen people with a sniper's rifle from atop the University of Texas tower. McGraw posits Whitman as the first mass shooter of the era, and uses his case to begin exploring the myths, tropes, and truths of this phenomenon."--

Assigning source

Provided by publisher

Cataloging source

TxU/DLC

Dewey number

364.152/340973

Government publication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Index

index present

LC call number

HV6536.5

LC item number

.M34 2021

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Target audience

adult