From a taller tower [electronic resource] : the rise of the American mass shooter / Seamus McGraw.

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"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 in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McGraw, Seamus (Author)
Language:English
Published: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mass shootings > United States.
School shootings > United States.
Massacres > United States.
Online Access:
ProQuest Ebook Central - Academic Complete: 2021 (Ebook Central @ Proquest)
Variant Title:
From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter
Format: Electronic eBook
Contents:
  • Prologue. The deepest silence there is
  • The Texas sharpshooter fallacy
  • Deliver us from evil
  • To kill the last killer
  • 'Tis not alone my inky cloak
  • Jokers wild
  • If you see something, say something
  • A good guy with a gun
  • I cling to my gun, you cling to yours
  • The fog of war in peacetime
  • From a taller tower
  • Epilogue. The silence between gunshots
  • Acknowledgments
  • Notes
  • Index.