Waco Rising: David Koresh, the Fbi, and the Birth of America's Modern Militias

by Kevin Cook

Book Overview

Named one of The New Yorker's "Best Books of 2023"

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, including twenty-five...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 125084052X
• ISBN13: 9781250840523
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.14 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.5"