Waco rising : David Koresh, the FBI, and the birth of America's modern militias
(2023)

Nonfiction

Book

Call Numbers:
976.4284/COOK,K

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Adult Nonfiction 976.4284/COOK,K Available

Details

PUBLISHED
New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, [2023]
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

x, 273 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9781250840523, 125084052X :, 125084052X, 9781250840523
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

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

"A news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militias"--