From a Taller Tower The Rise of the American Mass Shooter

Seamus McGraw, Roger Wayne

eAudio - 2021

We, as a nation, have become desensitized to the shock and pain in the wake of mass shootings. In the bottomless silence between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, the killing continues; the dying continues. From a Taller Tower attends to the silence that has left us empty in the aftermath of these atrocities. Veteran journalist Seamus McGraw chronicles the rise of the mass shooter to dismantle the myths we have constructed around the murderers and ourselves.In 1966, America's first mass shooter, from atop the University of Texas tower, unleashed a new reality: the fear that any of us may be targeted by a killer, and the complicity we bear in granting these murderers the fame or infamy they crave. Addressing individual ...cases in the epidemic that began in Austin, From a Taller Tower bluntly confronts our obsession with the shooters—and explores the isolation, narcissism, and sense of victimhood that fan their obsessions. Drawing on the...

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Published
Tantor Media, Inc
Language
English
Main Authors
Seamus McGraw, Roger Wayne
Online Access
OverDrive Resource Page
Format
MP3 audiobook, OverDrive Listen audiobook
MP3 audiobook
File Size194 GB
Parts7
ISBN9781666107210
Release Date5/18/2021
OverDrive Listen audiobook
File Size194 GB
ISBN9781666107210
Release Date5/18/2021