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. 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. 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. America is still picking up the pieces, and we still haven’t heard the full story. A two-month siege of their compound in Waco, Texas, ended in a firefight that killed seventy-six, including twenty-five children. In 1993, David Koresh and a band of heavily armed evangelical Christians took on the might of the US government. A news-making account of the war between David Koresh’s Branch Davidians and the FBI, and how their standoff launched today’s militias
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