A news-making account of the war between David Koreshâs Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched todayâs 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 havenât 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 Koreshâs deadly charisma and takes us behind the scenes at the Branch Davidiansâ compound, where âthe new Christâ turned his followers into servants and sired seventeen children by a dozen âwives.â In vivid accounts packed with human drama, Cook harnesses never-reported material to reconstruct the FBIâs fifty-one-day siege of the Waco compound in minute-to-minute detail. He sheds new light on the Clinton administrationâs approval of a lethal governmental assault in a new, definitive account of the firefight that ended so many lives and triggered the rise of todayâs militia movement. Waco drew the battle lines for American extremistsâin Oklahoma City bomber Timothy McVeighâs words, âWaco started this war.â With help from sources as diverse as Branch Davidian survivors and the FBIâs lead negotiator during the siege, Cook draws a straight line from Wacoâs ashes to the January 6, 2021, riot at the US Capitol and insurrections yet to come. Unmissable reading for anyone interested in the truth of what happened in Texas three decades ago, Waco Rising is chillingly relevant today. Here is the spark that ignited todayâs antigovernment militias.
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