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Sandy Hook: An American Tragedy and the Battle for Truth by Elizabeth Williamson
4 reviews
starstreamer26's review
dark
emotional
sad
5.0
Content Warnings
Graphic: Grief and Child death
Moderate: Stalking and Gun violence
ruthypoo2's review against another edition
challenging
emotional
informative
sad
tense
medium-paced
5.0
Content Warnings
Moderate: Death, Murder, Stalking, Child death, Grief, Injury/Injury detail, Bullying, Emotional abuse, Mass/school shootings, Violence, and Gun violence
Minor: Cursing, Suicide, Religious bigotry, and Mental illness
samarakroeger's review
challenging
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
medium-paced
4.0
A thoroughly researched account of the scum of the earth (aka Alex Jones) and the spread of harmful conspiracies surrounding the horrific school shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary in 2012. Williamson draws strong ties between these decade-old lies propagated by Jones et al. and the rise of Trumpism and “alternative truths” that have proliferated through the under regulation of social media, especially through conspiracy groups on Facebook, culminating in the popularity of QAnon and the January 6th insurrection on the Capitol.
After I had gotten this book from the library, there were two more mass shootings in quick succession. WTF is wrong with this country.
There were a few instances where I noted repeated phrases and quotes from earlier in the book - but it is certainly challenging to edit a book of this scope and length and it didn’t detract too much from my reading experience.
I feel for the many hours of InfoWars spewing Williamson must have had to watch for this book. And the interviews with conspiracy spreaders? Sketchy, indeed. I’m glad deplatforming has been fairly effective in at least some of these cases.
After I had gotten this book from the library, there were two more mass shootings in quick succession. WTF is wrong with this country.
There were a few instances where I noted repeated phrases and quotes from earlier in the book - but it is certainly challenging to edit a book of this scope and length and it didn’t detract too much from my reading experience.
I feel for the many hours of InfoWars spewing Williamson must have had to watch for this book. And the interviews with conspiracy spreaders? Sketchy, indeed. I’m glad deplatforming has been fairly effective in at least some of these cases.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Stalking, Grief, Gun violence, Mass/school shootings, Death, and Murder
Minor: Eating disorder, Suicide, Self harm, and Mental illness
gersandelf's review
challenging
dark
informative
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Very informative for understanding the current (at time of this review) Jones trial in Texas. It's a terrible read (nothing about Sandy Hook could be otherwise) but very well put together and very worth reading to understand much of what's happened to American culture in the past two decades.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Child death, Gun violence, Violence, Stalking, Grief, Mass/school shootings, Sexual harassment, and Antisemitism
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