Title:
Waco rising : David Koresh, the FBI, and the birth of America's modern militias / Kevin Cook.
ISBN:
9781250840523
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2023]
©2023
Physical Description:
x, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Contents:
Wandering bonehead -- A new religion -- Sleeping with a prophetess -- Madman in Waco -- Planet Koresh -- The sinful messiah -- Deadline pressure -- Showtime -- Cease-fire -- David and Goliath -- Wait -- A gathering storm -- Hard bargains -- Testimony -- Tightening the noose -- T-shirt hill -- Signals and noise -- Regime change -- Breakthrough -- Pending judgment -- "This is not an assault" -- Apocalypse -- Out of the ashes -- Forensics -- Weaponizing Waco -- Survivors.
Summary:
"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.
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OCLC Number:
on1346622612
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