From a Taller Tower: The Rise of the American Mass Shooter

We have become desensitized to the shock and pain of mass shootings, and From a Taller Tower by Seamus McGraw challenges the myths we have constructed around the murderers and ourselves. It explores the isolation, narcissism, and sense of victimhood that fan their obsessions and draws on the experiences of survivors and first responders to remind us of the humanity that can stop the killing and the dying.

\n Format: Hardback
\n Length: 256 pages
\n Publication date: 20 April 2021
\n Publisher: University of Texas Press
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We, as a nation, have grown numb to the shock and anguish that follow mass shootings. The deafening silence that ensues between gunshots, as political stalemate ensures inaction, only serves to perpetuate the killing and the suffering.

From a Taller Tower delves into the silence that has left us empty in the wake of these tragedies. Veteran journalist Seamus McGraw takes us on a journey to dismantle the myths we have created about mass shooters and ourselves.

In 1966, America witnessed its first mass shooter, perched atop the University of Texas tower, ushering in a new reality: the fear that any one of us could become a target of a killer, and the complicity we bear in granting these murderers the fame or infamy they seek.

Through the lens of individual cases in the Austin epidemic, From a Taller Tower boldly confronts our obsession with shooters. It explores the isolation, narcissism, and sense of victimhood that fuel their obsessions. McGraw draws on the experiences of survivors, first responders, and mental health experts to challenge the notion of the "good guy with a gun," the idolization of guns, and the reliability of traumatized memory.

Despite the darkness of this terrible history, McGraw offers a glimmer of hope. He reminds us of the humanity that has the power to stop the killing and the dying.

\n Weight: 460g\n
Dimension: 149 x 222 x 27 (mm)\n
ISBN-13: 9781477317181\n \n