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Boston Strong (book)
''Boston Strong: A City's Triumph Over Tragedy'' is a non-fiction book about the Boston Marathon bombings by ''The New York Times'' best-selling author Casey Sherman and veteran Boston journalist Dave Wedge. The book was released in February 2015 by University Press of New England. The book was used as a basis for the 2016 CBS Films motion picture ''Patriots Day'', starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman, and J. K. Simmons, and directed by Peter Berg Peter Berg (born March 11, 1964) is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. His directorial film works include the black comedy ''Very Bad Things'' (1998), the action comedy ''The Rundown'' (2003), the sports drama '' Friday Night Lig .... References Works about the Boston Marathon bombing 2015 non-fiction books University Press of New England books {{US-hist-book-stub ...
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Casey Sherman
Casey Sherman is a '' New York Times'', USA Today, and '' Wall Street Journal'' Bestselling American author, journalist and screenwriter most famous for his 2009 book ''The Finest Hours'', which was adapted into the big budget Walt Disney Studios (division) 2016 film of the same name, and ''Boston Strong'', which was adapted into the acclaimed 2016 film ''Patriots Day''. Life and career Sherman was born in Hyannis, Massachusetts. He attended Barnstable High School and graduated from Fryeburg Academy in 1988. He studied at Boston University, graduating in 1992. As a television news producer for WBZ-TV, Sherman led a high-profile re-investigation of his aunt's murder, which he later chronicled in his 2003 book, ''A Rose for Mary: The Hunt for the Real Boston Strangler.'' Sherman's work suggests that his aunt, 19-year old Mary Sullivan, might not have been a victim of the Boston Strangler, as commonly believed. Sherman wrote the New York Times Best-seller ''The Finest Hours'' ...
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Dave Wedge
David M. Wedge (born July 31, 1970) is a ''New York Times''-bestselling author, journalist, podcast host and award-winning former reporter for the ''Boston Herald''. Career Literature As an author Wedge's first book, titled '' Boston Strong: A City's Triumph Over Tragedy'' and co-written with author Casey Sherman, was released in February 2015 by University Press of New England. Boston Mayor Marty Walsh wrote the foreword for the book, which is a non-fiction drama about the Boston Marathon bombing. Material from the book was used for the movie '' Patriots Day'' (2016), starring Mark Wahlberg, John Goodman and J.K. Simmons and directed by Peter Berg. The book was also part of a display on the Boston Marathon attacks at the National Crime Museum in Washington, D.C. Wedge and Sherman teamed up again to tell the life story of Pete Frates, a Boston College baseball player with ALS who was the inspiration for the Ice Bucket Challenge social media phenomenon. The book, titled '' Ice B ...
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Boston Marathon Bombings
The Boston Marathon bombing was a domestic terrorist attack that took place during the annual Boston Marathon on April 15, 2013. Two terrorists, brothers Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Tamerlan Tsarnaev, planted two homemade pressure cooker bombs, which detonated 14 seconds and apart at 2:49p.m., near the finish line of the race, killing three people and injuring hundreds of others, including 17 who lost limbs. Three days later, on April 18, Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released images of two suspects. They were later identified as the Tsarnaev brothers, who were Chechen Kyrgyzstani-Americans. Following their identification, at 10:35p.m., they killed an MIT policeman. At 11:00p.m., they kidnapped a man in his car. At 12:15a.m., on April 19, the man escaped. At 12:45a.m., they had a shootout with the police in nearby Watertown, during which two officers were severely injured (one of whom, DJ Simmonds, died a year later). Tamerlan was shot several times, and his brother Dzho ...
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The New York Times
''The New York Times'' (''the Times'', ''NYT'', or the Gray Lady) is a daily newspaper based in New York City with a worldwide readership reported in 2020 to comprise a declining 840,000 paid print subscribers, and a growing 6 million paid digital subscribers. It also is a producer of popular podcasts such as '' The Daily''. Founded in 1851 by Henry Jarvis Raymond and George Jones, it was initially published by Raymond, Jones & Company. The ''Times'' has won 132 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any newspaper, and has long been regarded as a national "newspaper of record". For print it is ranked 18th in the world by circulation and 3rd in the U.S. The paper is owned by the New York Times Company, which is publicly traded. It has been governed by the Sulzberger family since 1896, through a dual-class share structure after its shares became publicly traded. A. G. Sulzberger, the paper's publisher and the company's chairman, is the fifth generation of the family to head the p ...
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University Press Of New England
The University Press of New England (UPNE), located in Lebanon, New Hampshire and founded in 1970, was a university press consortium including Brandeis University, Dartmouth College (its host member), Tufts University, the University of New Hampshire, and Northeastern University. It shut in 2018 and in January 2021, Brandeis University became the sole owner of all titles and copyrights of UPNE, excluding Dartmouth College Press titles. Notable fiction authors published by UPNE include Howard Frank Mosher, Roxana Robinson, Ernest Hebert, Cathie Pelletier, Chris Bohjalian, Percival Everett, Laurie Alberts and Walter D. Wetherell. Notable poets distributed by the press include Rae Armantrout, Claudia Rankine, James Tate, Mary Ruefle, Donald Revell, Ellen Bryant Voigt, James Wright, Jean Valentine, Stanley Kunitz, Heather McHugh, and Yusef Komunyakaa. Notable nature and environment authors published include William Sargent, Cynthia Huntington, David Gessner, John ...
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CBS Films
CBS Films Inc. was an American film production and distribution company founded in 2007 as a subsidiary of CBS Corporation and was considered a mini-major studio up until 2019. CBS Films originally was planned to distribute, develop and produce four to six $50 million budget movies a year. After October 11, 2019, CBS Films was re-configured to be a production company for television films to be carried by CBS All Access (now Paramount+). Background The CBS network had formed a previous CBS Films, Inc. as its syndication arm in 1952, which was later renamed CBS Enterprises in 1968, then later Viacom two years later, but due to fin-syn law being upheld in 1972, CBS was forced to spin off the company. CBS made a brief move into film production in 1967, creating Cinema Center Films and closed in 1972 as an unprofitable unit. In 1979 CBS launched a new theatrical films division, which was officially named CBS Theatrical Films the following year. While this was in operation, CBS ...
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Patriots Day (film)
''Patriots Day'' is a 2016 American action thriller film about the Boston Marathon bombings in 2013 and the subsequent terrorist manhunt. Directed by Peter Berg and written by Berg, Matt Cook, and Joshua Zetumer, the film is based on the book '' Boston Strong'' by Casey Sherman and Dave Wedge. It stars Mark Wahlberg, Kevin Bacon, John Goodman, J. K. Simmons, and Michelle Monaghan. It marks the third collaboration between Berg and Wahlberg, following ''Lone Survivor'' and ''Deepwater Horizon''. Principal photography began on March 29, 2016, in New York City, and also filmed in Boston, Los Angeles, New Orleans, and Philadelphia. The film premiered on November 17, 2016, at the AFI Fest. Distributed by CBS Films via Lionsgate, It was released in Boston, New York and Los Angeles on December 21, 2016, followed by a nationwide expansion on January 13, 2017. It received positive reviews for Berg's direction and the performances of its cast, and was chosen by the National Board of Revi ...
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Mark Wahlberg
Mark Robert Michael Wahlberg (born June 5, 1971), former stage name Marky Mark, is an American actor, businessman, and former rapper. He has received multiple accolades, including a BAFTA Award, and nominations for two Academy Awards, three Golden Globe Awards, nine Primetime Emmy Awards, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. Wahlberg was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1971. In the 1990s, Wahlberg was a member of the music group Marky Mark and the Funky Bunch, with whom he released the albums '' Music for the People'' (1991) and ''You Gotta Believe'' (1992). Wahlberg made his screen debut in '' Renaissance Man'' (1994) and had his first starring role in ''Fear'' (1996). He received critical praise for his performance as porn actor Dirk Diggler in '' Boogie Nights'' (1997). In the early 2000s, he ventured into big-budget action movies, such as '' The Perfect Storm'' (2000), ''Planet of the Apes'' (2001), and '' The Italian Job'' (2003). He was nominated for the Academ ...
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John Goodman
John Stephen Goodman (born June 20, 1952) is an American actor. He gained national fame for his role as the family patriarch Dan Conner in the ABC comedy series '' Roseanne'' (1988–1997; 2018), for which he received a Golden Globe Award, and its sequel series '' The Conners'' (2018–present). He is known as a character actor and regular collaborator with the Coen brothers, starring in such films as '' Raising Arizona'' (1987), '' Barton Fink'' (1991), '' The Big Lebowski'' (1998), '' O Brother, Where Art Thou?'' (2000), and '' Inside Llewyn Davis'' (2013). He also had voice roles in numerous animated films, appearing as Pacha in '' The Emperor's New Groove'' franchise (2000–2008), James P. "Sulley" Sullivan in Disney/ Pixar's '' Monsters, Inc.'' franchise (2001–2021), Baloo in '' The Jungle Book 2'' (2003), George Wolfsbottom in '' Clifford's Really Big Movie'' (2004), Layton T. Montgomery in '' Bee Movie'' (2007), Eli "Big Daddy" LaBouff in ''The Princess and the F ...
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Peter Berg
Peter Berg (born March 11, 1964) is an American director, producer, writer, and actor. His directorial film works include the black comedy '' Very Bad Things'' (1998), the action comedy '' The Rundown'' (2003), the sports drama '' Friday Night Lights'' (2004), the action thriller '' The Kingdom'' (2007), the superhero comedy-drama '' Hancock'' (2008), the military science fiction war film '' Battleship'' (2012), the war film '' Lone Survivor'' (2013), the disaster drama ''Deepwater Horizon'' (2016), the Boston Marathon bombing drama ''Patriots Day'' (2016), the action thriller '' Mile 22'' (2018), and the action comedy ''Spenser Confidential'' (2020) the latter five all starring Mark Wahlberg. In addition to cameo appearances in the last six of these titles, he has had prominent acting roles in films including ''Never on Tuesday'' (1989), '' Shocker'' (1989), '' The Last Seduction'' (1994), '' The Great White Hype'' (1996), '' Cop Land'' (1997), ''Corky Romano'' (2001), ''Collate ...
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Works About The Boston Marathon Bombing
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2015 Non-fiction Books
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