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

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 children. America is still picking up the pieces,...

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,...