Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Cook, Kevin, 1956-

Publication

• New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023.
• ©2023

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Details

Description

x, 273 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations; 25 cm

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"--
• 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

Alternative Title

David Koresh, the FBI, and the birth of America's modern militias

Subject

• Koresh, David, 1959-1993
• Branch Davidians
• 1993
• Waco Branch Davidian Disaster, Tex., 1993
• Militia movements > United States
• Radicalism > United States
• Militia movements
• Radicalism
• Texas
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.

Call Number

JFE 23-1885

ISBN

• 9781250840523
• 125084052X
• 9781250840530 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2022036184

OCLC

1346622612

Author

Cook, Kevin, 1956- author.

Title

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

Publisher

New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023.

Copyright Date

©2023

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Chronological Term

1993

Other Form:

Online version: Cook, Kevin, 1956-. Waco rising. First edition New York, New York : Henry Holt and Company, 2023 9781250840530 (DLC) 2022036185

Research Call Number

JFE 23-1885