{"product_id":"waco-rising-kevin-cook-9781250840516","title":"Waco Rising: David Koresh, the Fbi, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNamed one of The New Yorker's \"Best Books of 2023\"\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA news-making account of the war between David Koresh's Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today's militias\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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. America is still picking up the pieces, and we still haven't heard the full story. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eKevin Cook, who revealed the truth behind a mythic, misunderstood murder in his 2014 \u003ci\u003eKitty Genovese\u003c\/i\u003e, finally provides the full story of what happened at Waco. He 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.\" In vivid accounts packed with human drama, Cook harnesses never-reported material to reconstruct the FBI's fifty-one-day siege of the Waco compound in minute-to-minute detail. He sheds new light on the Clinton administration's approval of a lethal governmental assault in a new, definitive account of the firefight that ended so many lives and triggered the rise of today's militia movement. Waco drew the battle lines for American extremists--in Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeigh's words, \"Waco started this war.\" With help from sources as diverse as Branch Davidian survivors and the FBI's lead negotiator during the siege, Cook draws a straight line from Waco's ashes to the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol and insurrections yet to come. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eUnmissable reading for anyone interested in the truth of what happened in Texas three decades ago, \u003ci\u003eWaco Rising\u003c\/i\u003e is chillingly relevant today. Here is the spark that ignited today's antigovernment militias.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Kevin Cook\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1250840511\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781250840516\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Holt McDougal\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 01\/30\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 288\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.75lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.01h x 6.04w x 0.56d","brand":"Kevin Cook","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44302234124543,"sku":"9781250840516","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_7f27e42b-e715-4109-bbc6-009785a2764f.jpg?v=1695160302","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/waco-rising-kevin-cook-9781250840516","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}