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Recounts the details surrounding the Boston Marathon Bombing, including the years leading up to the incident, the bomb scene itself, the police shootout with the Tsarnaev brothers, and the capture of Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.
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About the Author:
CASEY SHERMAN is considered one of America's preeminent true-crime authors and investigative journalists. His books include The Finest Hours (now in production as a major motion picture for Walt Disney Pictures), Animal: The Bloody Rise and Fall of the Mob's Most Feared Assassin, Search for the Strangler (in development at FOX Television), and Bad Blood. A finalist for the Massachusetts Book of the Year honors and the prestigious New Hampshire Literary Awards nonfiction prize, Sherman has been a featured guest on NBC's Today Show and Dateline; CBS's The Early Show, 48 Hours and the CBS Evening News; ABC World News Tonight, CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, Discovery, The History Channel, A&E, The Travel Channel, and The View.
DAVE WEDGE is journalist and former top investigative journalist for the Boston Herald. He has won awards for his reporting from Ground Zero, the Rhode Island nightclub fire, and the Boston Marathon bombings. A Boston College graduate, he has written for Esquire and has been a guest on CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, CBS, ABC's Good Morning America, and E! True Hollywood Story.
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DAVE WEDGE is journalist and former top investigative journalist for the Boston Herald. He has won awards for his reporting from Ground Zero, the Rhode Island nightclub fire, and the Boston Marathon bombings. A Boston College graduate, he has written for Esquire and has been a guest on CNN, FOX News, MSNBC, CBS, ABC's Good Morning America, and E! True Hollywood Story.
''Boston Strong combines tireless research with vivid and panoramic storytelling. The horror of a day, the honor of a city both perfectly conveyed.'' --David Maraniss, Pulitzer Prize winner and author of Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World, Clemente, and Barack Obama: The Story
''Compulsively readable...Sherman and Wedge's loyalty to true storytelling drew me in, touched me, shocked me with new information, [and] helped me understand this day for what it was: a day where every single person was trying to help someone else. This is how this day should be remembered.'' --Gabriela Cowperthwaite, director and writer of Blackfish
''Sherman and Wedge skillfully and honestly tell this most compelling story through the eyes of the people who have inspired us the most...and have overcome so much since.'' --Stephen Puleo, author of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
''Compulsively readable...Sherman and Wedge's loyalty to true storytelling drew me in, touched me, shocked me with new information, [and] helped me understand this day for what it was: a day where every single person was trying to help someone else. This is how this day should be remembered.'' --Gabriela Cowperthwaite, director and writer of Blackfish
''Sherman and Wedge skillfully and honestly tell this most compelling story through the eyes of the people who have inspired us the most...and have overcome so much since.'' --Stephen Puleo, author of Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919
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- PublisherBlackstone Publishing
- Publication date2015
- ISBN 10 1481531026
- ISBN 13 9781481531023
- BindingAudio CD
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