Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage by Jeff Guinn, Jeff Guinn

Waco: David Koresh, the Branch Davidians, and A Legacy of Rage
Jeff Guinn, Jeff Guinn
Page: 400
Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
ISBN: 9781982186104
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
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Notes From Your Bookseller Rich, knotted, surprising, and persuasive, Waco lays out the full story of what happened 30 years ago between the ATF and Branch Davidians – the truth, the lies, and the mythmaking that continues to resonate through our current political reality. Be it Bonnie and Clyde, Charles Manson, Jim Jones, and now David Koresh, Jeff Guinn shows his journalist penchant for multilayered stories of complicated minds in tangled circumstances. Just as expected, another thoroughly riveting read! The definitive account of the disastrous siege at the Branch Davidian compound in Waco, Texas, featuring never-before-seen documents, photographs, and interviews, from former investigative reporter Jeff Guinn, bestselling author of Manson and The Road to Jonestown.

For the first time in thirty years, more than a dozen former ATF agents who participated in the initial February 28, 1993, raid speak on the record about the poor decisions of their commanders that led to this deadly confrontation. Revelations in this book include why the FBI chose to end the siege with the use of CS gas; how both ATF and FBI officials tried and failed to cover up their agencies’ mistakes; where David Koresh plagiarized his infamous prophecies; and direct links between the Branch Davidian tragedy and the modern militia movement in America. Notorious conspiracist Alex Jones is a part of the Waco story. So much is new, and stunning.

Guinn puts you alongside the ATF agents as they embarked on the disastrous initial assault, unaware that the Davidians knew they were coming and were armed and prepared to resist. Drawing on this new information, including several eyewitness accounts, Guinn again does what he did with his bestselling books about Charles Manson and Jim Jones, shedding new light on a story that we thought we knew.

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