The Insurrectionist: Major General Edwin A. Walker and the Birth of the Deep State Conspiracy

by Peter Adams

Peter Adams's The Insurrectionist is the first comprehensive biography of Major General Edwin A. Walker, a figure who, in the 1950s and 1960s, became a leader of a far-right political movement known for its elaborate conspiracy theories, authoritarianism, and uncompromising white supremacy. Sixty years before the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, Edwin Walker was charged with insurrection and seditious conspiracy. He was arrested...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807179922
• ISBN13: 9780807179925
• Release Date: August 2023
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"