Title Statement | Waco rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the birth of America's modern militias / Kevin Cook. |
Alternative Title(s) | David Koresh, the FBI, and the birth of America's modern militias |
Author | Cook, Kevin, 1956- |
Publication | New York: Henry Holt and Company,2023. |
Edition | First edition. |
Extent of Item | x, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates |
ISBN | 9781250840523 (hardcover) |
Other Number | pr06769416 |
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. |
Bibliography | Includes bibliographical references (pages 235-254) and index. |
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"-- |
Subjects & Genres |
By Topic | Militia movements--United States |
Radicalism--United States |
Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993 |
By Name | Koresh, David,1959-1993 |
Branch Davidians |