Foreword STEPHEN ARTERBURN, M.ED Since Dave Stoop and I published The Angry Man in 1991, we have been bombarded with images of men and anger that represent the venom of bitterness that flows through the veins of millions of other men who never make head- lines. These images and headlines have at their core anger, hate, and rage. The Menendez brothers, accused and tried for brutally murdering their parents, have become a joke rather than an example of tragedy that comes from resentment and rage. If they are found guilty in their second trial, their crime will have been to act out their anger against their parents rather than get the help they needed before it was too late for them and their parents. Two parents are dead and two boys are in jail, all needless results of anger out of control. Shortly after the Menendez story began to fade, the world was shocked at the brutal and ruthless deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ron Goldman. These gory slashings were at the hands of an angry person out of control. We will probably never know exactly what happened on that bloody sidewalk, but through testimony and 911 recordings we have learned that for many men, under a controlled exterior lies an angry heart so out of control it would attack what it
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