Parkland: Birth of a Movement Audiobook (Free)

For the first anniversary from the events at Parkland, the acclaimed, New York Times bestselling writer of Columbine provides an intimate, deeply moving account of the extraordinary teenage survivors who became activists and forced back against the NRA and feckless Congressional leaders-inspiring an incredible number of Americans to join their grassroots #neveragain motion.

Nineteen years ago, Dave Cullen was among the first to reach at Columbine High, even before a lot of the SWAT teams went in. While about Parkland: Birth of a Movement writing his acclaimed accounts from the tragedy, he experienced two rounds of secondary PTSD. He protected all the afterwards tragedies from a range, working with a cadre of experts cultivated from academia as well as the FBI, but swore he’d never return to the scene of a ghastly crime.

However in March 2018, Cullen went to Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School because something radically different was taking place. In nearly two decades witnessing the mass shootings epidemic escalate, he was stunned and awed by the courage, anger, and conviction from the high school’s learners. Refusing to permit adults and the media to form their story, these remarkable children took control, using their grief as a catalyst for modification, transforming tragedy into a movement of astonishing wish that has galvanized a country.

Cullen unfolds the storyplot of Parkland through the voices of key individuals whose diverse personalities and outlooks comprise every facet of the movement. Instead of taking us into the minds of the killer, he requires us into the hearts from the Douglas learners as they deal with the common concerns of students everywhere-awaiting university acceptance letters, learning for mid-term examinations, competing against their athletic competitors, piecing together the yearbook, staging the musical Planting season Awakening, savoring prom and graduation-while continue from a horrific event that has altered them permanently.

Deeply researched and beautifully told, Parkland can be an in-depth study of this pivotal moment in American culture-and an up-close portrait that reveals what these extraordinary young people are like simply because kids. Since it celebrates the passion of these astonishing students who are making background, this spellbinding reserve is an motivating call to action for lasting transformation.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.