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Named one of The New Yorker''s Best Books of 2023

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

In 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.

Kevin Cook, who revealed the truth behind a mythic, misunderstood murder in his 2014 Kitty Genovese, 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

Waco Rising

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      Publisher St Martin's Press
      Published 30 January 2024
      ISBN-13 9781250840516
      978-1250840516
      ISBN-10 1250840511
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      Police and security services Political ideologies and movements Contemporary non-Christian and para-Christian cults and sects

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      Named one of The New Yorker''s Best Books of 2023

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

      In 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.

      Kevin Cook, who revealed the truth behind a mythic, misunderstood murder in his 2014 Kitty Genovese, 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

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