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Cargando... Waco Rising (edición 2023)por Kevin Cook (Autor)
Información de la obraWaco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias por Kevin Cook
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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 finally provides the full story of what happened at Waco. He gives listeners 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. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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This is a balanced account, with an attempt at understanding as well as acknowledging mistakes. Neither side was without responsibility for what happened and while the reader will have a better grasp of what happened, it may or may not change your overall opinion. It didn't change mine, perhaps tempered it with a bit more empathy.
I was content with how much detail Cook went into when discussing the effects on modern militias. He didn't repeat the many things he touched on in walking us through the siege but instead mentions how each aspect has been interpreted by those who join or support militias. So it is brief but, if you read and paid attention to all that came before it, it was sufficient. I'm sure an entire volume could be devoted to every detail that played forward, but that isn't what this book is doing, so I don't hold it against a book for not being what it never set out to be.
Highly recommended both for those who remember the incident as well as those who have simply heard of it (or used it for personal reasons even though they have no idea what happened).
Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. ( )