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Waco rising : David Koresh, the FBI, and the birth of America's modern militias / Kevin Cook.

Van Pelt Library BP605.B72 C66 2023
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Language:
English
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Physical Description:
x, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition:
First edition.
Other Title:
David Koresh, the FBI, and the birth of America's modern militias
Place of Publication:
New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
Summary:
  • "A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militias"-- Provided by publisher.
  • 1993: David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. Cook gives readers a taste of Koresh's deadly charisma and takes us behind the scenes at the Branch Davidians' compound, where "the new Christ" turned his followers into servants and sired seventeen children by a dozen "wives." Waco drew the battle lines for American extremists, and here Cook draws a straight line from Waco's ashes to the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol-- and insurrections yet to come. -- adapted from Amazon.com
Contents:
  • Machine generated contents note: 1. Wandering Bonehead
  • 2. A New Religion
  • 3. Sleeping with a Prophetess
  • 4. Madman in Waco
  • 5. Planet Koresh
  • 6. The Sinful Messiah
  • 7. Deadline Pressure
  • 8. Showtime
  • 9. Cease-fire
  • 10. David and Goliath
  • 11. Wait
  • 12. A Gathering Storm
  • 13. Hard Bargains
  • 14. Testimony
  • 15. Tightening the Noose
  • 16. T-shirt Hill
  • 17. Signals and Noise
  • 18. Regime Change
  • 19. Breakthrough
  • 20. Pending Judgment
  • 21. "This Is Not an Assault"
  • 22. Apocalypse
  • 23. Out of the Ashes
  • 24. Forensics
  • 25. Weaponizing Waco
  • 26. Survivors.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Other Format:
Online version: Cook, Kevin, 1956-. Waco rising.
ISBN:
  • 9781250840523
  • 125084052X
OCLC:
1346622612
Publisher Number:
99993493483

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