Born or Bred?: Martin Bryant: The making of a mass murderer
Fairfax Books, $34.99 pb, 288 pp
Society
Quarantined!
by Ben Eltham •
Robert Wainwright and Paola Totaro’s Born or Bred? Martin Bryant: The Making of a Mass Murderer is a tendentious and poorly written book about a fascinating topic. Riddled with clichés and full of baseless speculation, it displays neither great sensitivity nor penetrating insight. Despite the important subject matter, Wainwright and Totaro have written a shallow and dubious book.
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