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The Waco standoff / by Scott Gillam ; content consultant, Eugene V. Gallagher, Rosemary Park PRofessor, Department of Religious Studies, Connecticut College.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Gillam, Scott, Author.
- Series:
- Essential events.
- Essential events The Waco standoff
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Branch Davidians--Juvenile literature.
- Branch Davidians.
- Koresh, David, 1959-1993--Juvenile literature.
- Koresh, David.
- Koresh, David, 1959-1993.
- Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color).
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis, Minnesota : ABDO Publishing Company, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This title examines an important historic event--the standoff in Waco, Texas, between federal law enforcement agencies and Branch Davidian leader David Koresh and his followers living in the Mount Carmel Center.
- Contents:
- chapter 1. To act or to wait?
- chapter 2. A short history of the Davidians
- chapter 3. The role of the media
- chapter 4. A deadly confrontation
- chapter 5. Talk and action
- chapter 6. Tensions build
- chapter 7. Living faith or false religion?
- chapter 8. Apocalypse now
- chapter 9. The aftermath.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781629680347
- 1629680346
- 9781624018374
- 1624018378
- OCLC:
- 868965339
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