Parkland

Dave Cullen

The New York Times bestseller about the extraordinary young survivors who took on the gun lobby: "One of the most uplifting books you will read all year." — The Washington Post Back in 1999, Dave Cullen was among the first to arrive at Columbine High, even before most of the SWAT teams went in. While writing his acclaimed account of the tragedy, he suffered two bouts of secondary PTSD. He covered all the later tragedies from a distance, working with a cadre of experts cultivated from academia and the FBI, but swore he would never return to the scene of a ghastly crime. But in 2018, Cullen went to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School because something radically different was happening. After nearly twenty years witnessing the mass shooting epidemic escalate, he was stunned and awed by the courage, anger, and conviction of the high school's students.

Journalism & ReportageJournalism & Reportage · medium confidenceJournalism & Reportage81 signalsLlm Classifier: Journalism & Reportage -> Journalism & ReportageTopic Classifier: Disease, Epidemics & Drugs -> Medicine & Public HealthKeyword Classifier: Society & Culture -> Society & CultureDisease, Epidemics & DrugsCrime, Policing & ViolenceEducation & UniversitiesGrief, Trauma & Recovery
Experimental book profileGenerated by GPT-5.4 nano · may contain inaccuracies

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  1. 01 Central figures

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

  2. 02 Central places

    None extracted with sufficient confidence.

    These suggestions did not meet the normal display threshold and are more likely to be wrong.

    • Columbine High45%
    • Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School60%
  3. 03 Suggested argument

    No argument inferred with sufficient confidence.

  4. 04 Reading orientation

    25 / 100 academic

    Serious trade

    An estimate of intended readership and scholarly apparatus—not quality or importance.

Confidence percentages are the model's own estimates. Profile confidence: 66%.