Elizabeth Williamson has excelled at three of the top newspapers in the country: Washington Post, Wall Street Journal and New York Times. Her reporting skills are in evidence in "Sandy Hook," a book that not only covers the tragic shooting that occurred on Dec. 14, 2012 when 20 first graders and six educators were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Conn. but the strange aftermath as some people insisted the event never occurred at all. Described as one of the most shocking cultural ruptures of the internet era, "Santy Hook" documents a belligerence that has become all too common in our interconnected world.
Williamson takes us through the torment that parents, already suffering the loss of a small child, had to contend with as families were accosted online, on the street, even shot at at one point--tormented by people who accused the parents of faking their children's deaths.
The pattern of denial and attack didn't stop at Sandy Hook, of course. They reach right to the present as the investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 assault on the U.S. Capitol continues. That incident, fueled by a former president's claims of a rigged election drove a mob to violence in the nation's capital
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