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Waco Rising: David Koresh, the FBI, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias
By Kevin Cook
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By Kevin Cook
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Named one of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2023
"Cook's striking history connects the standoff to political violence today."
—The New York Times
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, includi...